Jared L. Landaw

Adjunct Professor jllandaw@syr.edu

Jared L. Landaw most recently served as the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: TAST), a publicly traded company operating approximately 1,100 restaurants in 23 states with over 25,000 employees. In 2024, Carrols was sold to Restaurant Brands International in a successful transaction that he helped lead internally.

Prior to joining Carrols, Mr. Landaw was the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Barington Capital Group, L.P., a collaborative activist investment firm, from 2004 to 2021. Before that, he served as the Vice President – Law at International Specialty Products Inc. (formerly NYSE: ISP) and as an attorney at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.

Mr. Landaw holds a B.A. from Colgate University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Managing Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review. He has served as a director of two publicly traded companies and has authored several articles on board composition and diversity, including “Maximizing the Value of Board Diversity” published by the Conference Board and “How Diverse is your Board, Really?” published by the Harvard Business Review.