Kenneth Austin

Since 2013, Kenneth Austin has served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of The Wallace Foundation. At Wallace, Kenneth provides overall legal counsel to Wallace's management and board, including serving as corporate secretary. In addition to playing a lead role in supporting the foundation's public policy engagement efforts, he coordinates the foundation's enterprise risk management analysis. Before joining Wallace, Kenneth was managing partner of ClassicManhattan, LLC, a New York City real estate firm. He served for many years as a senior leader of several national philanthropic organizations based in New York. Kenneth was also a founding board member of govWorks, Inc., an e-government services and Internet provider, where he served as director of business development, corporate secretary and chief legal officer. He was featured in Startup.com, an award-winning documentary on govWorks. Early in his career, Austin was an honors attorney with the U.S. Treasury Department and worked as a corporate associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell in London and New York. He received an A.B. in government from Harvard College and a J.D. from The Yale Law School.