Mary Lanning, Chair of the Advisory Board of the NYC Clothing Bank, is president and chief executive officer of ML&G Associates, Inc., headquartered in New York City. As a business development consultant, ML&G helps financial businesses and their strategic advisors navigate the government processes and agencies that regulate their options in the marketplace. Mary guides clients through infrastructure realignment, advocacy, and regulatory intervention to take advantage of global markets and expand competitive alliances.

Miss Lanning’s four decades in the international commercial insurance circuit have included mergers and acquisitions, new product introductions, company consolidations, development of enabling legislation, negotiation of transactional rulings, and inter-agency mediation. ML&G clients include government agencies, investors, insurance industry innovators, and the legal community throughout the United States and overseas.

Mary also is the founding member and chair of the board of YES!Solutions, Inc. in New York City, a grassroots neighborhood organization that brings temporary relief to homeless, immigrant, impoverished, aging, and seriously ill members of neighborhoods in all five boros. She is a board member and corporate secretary of Boys Hope Girls Hope of New York, Inc., an international residential educational program for young people whose needs and safety can no longer be assured in their own homes. She serves on the board of Sports Angels, Inc. to bring sports celebrities and sports lovers together to support children in need.

Ms. Lanning is a regular volunteer at Abraham House, an alternative sentencing facility for adults, and in the After School Program at Abraham House for children whose parents are incarcerated. Personally and through ML&G Associates, Mary also continues to provide innovation, guidance, and support to Morningside Retirement and Health Services, a community-based self-help organization that she helped organize decades ago to enable elderly and infirm clients to stay in their own homes as an alternative to institutionalization.