Linda Gosden Robinson is a Partner and Chairman of Robinson Lerer & Montgomery.

Ms. Robinson provides strategic counsel to CEOs and senior management of major corporations on a broad range of business challenges, including corporate positioning, crisis management, public policy, media outreach, and more.  Ms. Robinson’s clients include leaders in a wide spectrum of industries, such as healthcare, energy, Internet commerce, telecommunications, consumer products, fashion, and financial services.

From 1983 to 1986, Ms. Robinson served as senior vice president of corporate affairs at Warner Cable Communications, Inc.  She joined the company as part of a management turnaround team that brought the company to a position of profitability and growth.  As a key advisor to the chief executive officer and a member of the operations committee, the senior policy-making body of the company, Ms. Robinson played a leading role in creating and executing communications and government affairs strategies for the company and its operating divisions.

From 1981 to 1983, Ms. Robinson was director of public affairs for the U.S. Department of Transportation under Secretary Drew Lewis.  As chief public spokesperson for the Department and principal staff advisor to the Secretary, her major public affairs responsibilities included the 1981 air traffic controllers’ strike, Congressional passage of a gas tax, and negotiation of the agreement for Japanese voluntary import quotas on automobiles.

Previously, Ms. Robinson was deputy press secretary on the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign, and subsequently the director of public relations for the Republican National Committee, and press secretary to Committee Chairman William E. Brock.

Ms. Robinson is a member of the board of directors of Revlon, Inc., and BlackRock, Inc., and trustee and Vice Chair of New York University School of Medicine Foundation Board, and trustee of NYU Hospitals Center. 

Ms. Robinson received a B.A. from the University of Southern California, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.