Jeffrey R. Fried, Senior Managing Director, leads FGIC’s Public Finance Group. Before joining FGIC, he was General Counsel, since 1998, of Ambac Assurance Corporation's Public Finance Department and Financial Services Division. Mr. Fried was also a voting member of Ambac's Public Finance credit committee. In 1995, Mr. Fried joined Ambac from Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he served as bond counsel and underwriters' counsel. He holds a BS from the State University of New York at Albany and a JD from Fordham University School of Law.