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Bill Lambert is Red Lobster’s Senior Vice President of Finance & Controller. As leader of the Finance team, Bill is responsible for overall financial planning and analysis, operations analysis and control, technology integration, and capital development review. Before joining Red Lobster, Bill spent 21 years with Federated Department Stores, parent company of Macy’s, Rich’s, and other department store companies. He began his career at Federated in 1984 as a manager of financial planning and analysis with the company’s Mainstreet Division in Chicago. He then held a variety of positions in progressively more responsible roles leading up to Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer for the Central Region. In this role, Bill was responsible for finance, accounting, merchandise planning, and information systems for the $2.1 billion department store division of Federated, operating 73 stores in nine midwestern and southeast states. Prior to Federated, Bill was Senior Financial Analyst at Ameritrust Corporation in Ohio, where he was responsible for financial planning activities for the bank. Bill has an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Michigan and received his undergraduate degree in Business from Duke University. | 