Primary Job Title Member of the Board of Directors Primary Organization
E*TRADE
Gender Male
Frederick Kanner has been a director of the Company since April 2008. Kanner is a retired corporate lawyer who advised corporations, boards of directors, and financial advisors in connection with merger and acquisition transactions, financings, and securities law issues, as well as matters of fiduciary duty and corporate governance.
During his
over 40-year legal career, he served as a partner and Of Counsel at Dewey Ballantine LLP (subsequently, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP) where he was Chairman of Dewey’s Corporate Finance practice for more than 15 years and a member of its Management Committee for 20 years. Thereafter, Kanner served as Senior Of Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP.
Kanner is a member of the board of directors of Financial Guaranty Insurance Company (where he serves as Chairman of the Compensation Committee) and National Benefit Life Insurance Company (where he serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee) and is a member of the board of trustees of The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. Kanner is a member of the E*TRADE Bank board and a member of the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Governance Committee.




