Lorraine Lavet is a Senior Client Partner in the Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia offices of Korn Ferry. For 20 years, she has led the firm’s Association Practice. She specializes in the recruitment of CEOs and senior-level executives for associations and nonprofits. She has placed over 250 CEOs in her career.
Prior to joining Korn Ferry , Ms. Lavet spent over 20 years in association leadership positions, most recently as the Executive Vice President and COO of the American Electronics Association (AeA), the nation’s largest high-tech trade organization. Members include software, hardware, telecommunications and medical device companies.
Managing 17 offices nationwide, she oversaw all operational functions of the organization during her tenure, including membership development and field relations, business services and non-dues revenue, grassroots development, government contracting, and internal operations.
Ms. Lavet was President of AeA’s Education Foundation and Preferred Business Services for-profit subsidiary. Her staff was also responsible for AeA’s well-known financial classic for public technology companies.
Prior to AeA, Ms. Lavet was CEO of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, one of the nation’s largest metropolitan Chambers. As chief spokesperson for the Chamber, she led numerous state and local public policy and economic development initiatives for the Northern Virginia business community.
Ms. Lavet also served in a number of key roles at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business lobby, including Director, Domestic Policy and Director, Procurement Policy. She also led the development of the Chamber’s strategic plan.
For the previous seven years, Ms. Lavet was a strategic planning consultant for Harbridge House, Inc. and a government contracts consultant for Coopers & Lybrand.
Ms. Lavet served on more than a dozen boards for both the private and nonprofit sectors, including the Greater Washington Board of Trade, Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce, Barringer Technologies (NASDAQ), Northern Virginia Technology Council, Northern Virginia Roundtable. Ms. Lavet received a Bachelors of Business Administration in Finance and Investments and an MBA focused in Procurement and Contracting from George Washington University.