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Sherman Baldwin is the CEO of LCR Capital Partners, a global private investment firm headquartered in Westport, CT. Sherman has also recently been a seminar lecturer on Innovation & Leadership at Yale. Previously, Sherman was a Managing Director at Accenture (NYSE: ACN). He was the global client executive for one of Accenture’s largest and most strategic clients. Prior to that he was the Global Managing Director for Accenture’s Aerospace & Defense business. Prior to Accenture, Sherman was the Vice President of Strategy & Development for Pratt & Whitney, the aircraft engine division of United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX). He has also worked as a Vice President and Managing Director focused on the aerospace & defense and information technology portfolio companies of J.F. Lehman & Company, a private equity partnership. He started his business career at McKinsey & Company where he was an engagement manager developing growth strategies for companies in the aerospace & defense, computer and telecommunications industries. Sherman’s experience comprises over 20 years of P&L leadership, strategy and transformation work for Fortune 500 corporations, private equity firms and the Pentagon. From 1987 to 1995, he served in the U.S. Navy as a carrier pilot, a strategic planner for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Yale University, a Master’s degree in Telecommunications from George Washington University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. Sherman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Council on Germany. He is also a Founding Board Member of the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO). He has written award winning articles on leadership and national security and is the author of Ironclaw, a book about his combat experience as a carrier pilot during the first Persian Gulf War. He is also the author of Growing Up with Harry, a book about family values and the life lessons learned from his father. Sherman is a 2003 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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