Frederick Stein

Fred Stein is a trusted, customer-centric counselor. He makes the complex simple, and delivers holistic, solution-oriented advice. A lifelong learner and versatile team player, he has managed not only legal, claims, and insurance activities, but also compliance, security, facilities, loss prevention, and innovation team personnel. During his career, Fred has enjoyed collaborating with top caliber senior management, board members, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, and other teammates and professionals. With the legal function squarely situated at the center of so much information flow, he "connects dots," not only among these stakeholders but between concepts, strategies, and initiatives. A problem-preventer as much as a problem-solver, his breadth and depth of experience allows him to anticipate issues, minimize business impact, and maximize cost-efficiencies. Fred has helped scale legal and compliance functions, including while riding the arc of a fast-growth story at Redbox, the entertainment company that transformed content distribution, first through its North American network of 40,000 self-service kiosks and then digitally. As faculty for the in-house bar's (ACC) Corporate Counsel University for 10 years, Fred has coached hundreds of in-house counsel on goal setting and the strategic value they can offer. Drawing on more than a decade of experience advising on emerging tech, "big data" and privacy issues, he also serves as Chair of the ACC's 6,000+ member IT, Privacy and E-commerce Committee. Fred began his legal career with a federal judicial clerkship, then returned to Chicago as a lawyer for Phelan Pope & John, one of Chicago's leading trial law firms. Prior to law school, he was a claim investigator for a major P&C insurer, ultimately parlaying that experience into counseling corporate clients, insurers and reinsurers on complex claims issues and underlying coverages, including all-important cyber policies. Comfortable embracing change and dealing with ambiguity, Fred remains composed under pressure, effectively manages multiple priorities, and understands that the flipside of risk is opportunity. He prefers plain English over legalese, and tempers communications with an appropriate dose of humor.