Our Board of Directors
Robert H. Mundheim
Mr. Mundheim joined the Gogo Board in March of 2012. He is currently Of Counsel to Shearman & Sterling, a New York law firm, and Professor of Corporate Law and Finance at the University of Arizona Law School. Mr. Mundheim previously served as senior executive vice president and general counsel at Salomon Smith Barney. Prior to joining Salomon, he was Co-Chairman of the New York law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and University Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he had taught since 1965. He also served as Dean at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Among his other professional activities, Mr. Mundheim has been General Counsel to the U.S. Treasury Department (1977-1980); Special Counsel to the Securities and Exchange Commission (1962-1963); and Vice Chairman, Governor-at-Large and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Association of Securities Dealers (1988-1991). He has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Quadra Realty Trust, as a director of eCollege, Benjamin Moore, Commerce Clearing House, Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc. and First Pennsylvania Bank and as a member of the supervisory board of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG. Mr. Mundheim is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of New School University, a Trustee of the Curtis Institute of Music, and a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. He served as a member of the ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility and has been a faculty member of the Vanderbilt Directors’ College, the Duke Directors’ Education Institute and the Stanford Directors’ College. He was the President of the American Academy in Berlin and received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.