BA, Colgate University; MBA, Harvard University. Retired investment banker and financial executive. Private investor since 2003. Serves on executive committee and board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Sheltering Arms (a New York based social services agency), the Royal Oak Foundation (the US affiliate of the UK National Trust), the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and the Association of Lloyd’s Members (represents private capital at Lloyd’s of London). Former chair of Out2Play which built over 100 playgrounds for New York City public schools. Passionate about history and has visited most of the major Civil War battlefields as well as iconic battlefields throughout the world.