Brian D. Obergfell

Brian D. Obergfell, B.S., J.D., is an attorney with extensive background in banking, real estate and commercial finance and a Brooklyn resident, who was nominated by Governor Cuomo and unanimously confirmed by the New York Senate as a member of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York in June 2012 and reappointed in June 2021 for a term to expire June 30, 2025.

Mr. Obergfell is a senior partner in Emmet, Marvin & Martin LLP, the New York City law firm where he has worked since 1985. He is admitted to practice in New York State and, since 2010, in England and Wales. He graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in Communications in 1979 and from New York Law School with a J.D. in 1985.

Mr. Obergfell has been a permanent trustee of the Heisman Trophy Trust since 2001, is a trustee of the Leake & Watts Children’s House since 2009, and served on the New York State Banking Board from 2007 through 2011. Mr. Obergfell was recently appointed to the new State Charter Advisory Board of the New York State Department of Financial Services in March 2012.

Mr. Obergfell serves as Chair of the Board’s Committee on Facilities Planning and Management, and is a member of the Committee on Academic Policy, Programs and Research and Executive Committee.