Richard J. Lampen is the Chairman of the Board of Douglas Elliman Inc. (NYSE: DOUG), a leading residential real estate brokerage company offering a comprehensive suite of technology, real estate services and investments. Prior to his retirement in December 2024, Mr. Lampen served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and a director of Douglas Elliman. Mr. Lampen also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and a director of Vector Group Ltd. (NYSE: VGR), a holding company engaged in the tobacco and investment business, until Vector’s sale in October 2024 to Japan Tobacco International Inc. From September 2006 until its acquisition in February 2020, Mr. Lampen was the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services (NYSE American: LTS), a diversified financial services company, which was acquired by Advisor Group, a portfolio company of Reverence Capital Partners. Mr. Lampen also served as Chairman of Ladenburg from September 2018 until the company was acquired. From October 2008 until October 2019, Mr. Lampen served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Castle Brands Inc. (NYSE American: ROX), a spirits company, prior to its acquisition by Pernod Ricard.
Mr. Lampen serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Frost Science Museum in Miami and as a member of the National Board of the American Jewish Committee and as a member of the Board of the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center. Mr. Lampen is the past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Financial Services Institute and the past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Ransom Everglades School and is a director and past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Miami Children’s Museum.
Prior to joining Vector in 1995, Mr. Lampen was a partner at Steel Hector & Davis, a law firm located in Miami, Florida. Previously, Mr. Lampen was a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers Inc. Mr. Lampen has served as a director of a number of companies, including Sanctuary Wealth, Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc., Castle Brands Inc., Douglas Elliman Inc., Vector Group Ltd., New Valley Corporation, U.S. Can Corporation, Spec’s Music Inc. and The International Bank of Miami, N.A., as well as a court-appointed independent director of Trump Plaza Funding, Inc.
Mr. Lampen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School.