Lawrence Hamilton

Lawrence was most recently Senior Vice President, Human Resources-Worldwide, a corporate officer and member of the Executive Committee at Tech Data Corporation in Clearwater, Florida, a $20+ billion, 11,000 associate worldwide technology distributor.  Mr. Hamilton joined Tech Data in 1993 as Vice President, Human Resources and was named Senior Vice President, Human Resources in 1996.  Mr. Hamilton departed Tech Data in June, 2006 to pursue his board membership, coaching and HR consulting interests.  Presently, he is  Senior Adjunct Faculty and Executive coach with the Center for Creative Leadership affiliate Leadership Development Institute at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, and manages a private consulting practice, Hamilton Consulting. He is a Board Certified Coach (BCC, #4248).  

Lawrence received a BA degree from Fisk University (cum laude- BOD member,1979-83), and a MPA, Labor Policy degree from The University of Alabama (high honors-Pi Sigma Alpha honorary) where he was an American Political Science Association funded Fellow and later Visiting Lecturer at the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration. He is a life time certified Senior Professional in Human Resources- SPHR (Society of Human Resource Management) and has received the “CCP” designation (Certified Compensation Professional) from World at Work. He completed the Harvard University, School of Business “Strategic Human Resources“ course and the coursework and comprehensive examination requirements for the Executive Leadership Doctoral Program (Ed.D.) at The George Washington University in June, 2002. He withdrew in the dissertation phase of the degree program for personal family reasons in the Fall, 2008 and was subsequently awarded the Ed.S. degree from the University (Human Resources Development) in January, 2009.  He is a certified “Workplace Mediator and Trainer” by the Mediation Training Institute.  

He has served on several public and private company boards and today is a member of the Carver-Edison board, a privately held employee stock ownership firm and Treace Medical Concepts, a publicly held medical device firm where is also Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.