Month: February 2022

Born in 1953, I grew up in Atlanta and graduated from Princeton and the Wharton School (MBA).  After college, I married a high school classmate, and we decided to brave the challenges of late 70s New York City.  Conditions chased us away from the City, and we moved to Darien in 1980, where we have lived ever since, in the same house since 1984.  

I spent twenty years in the institutional fixed income business (Bankers Trust and Merrill Lynch) and subsequently co-found a technology start-up that developed internet-based applications for the bond market.  We sold the business in 2018, and we were dismissed from our duties in 2019, resulting in an involuntary (but ultimately welcome) retirement.  

Ginger and I have three children, born from 1983 to 1991.  Our oldest graduated from Washington & Lee and Dartmouth (MBA), has four children, works for Spencer Stuart, and lives with his family in Rowayton.  Our middle child graduated from Princeton, is a veteran of a number of successful start-ups, and lives in London with her husband and daughter.  Our youngest is a Yale grad, where he was captain of the lacrosse team.  He is partner in a small sports marketing firm and splits time between New York and Darien.

Ginger and I are active members of St. Luke’s Parish, members of Wee Burn, and both enjoy bridge and golf.  We own a vacation house in Sea Island, GA, where we spend 2-3 months per year.  I am a fanatical student of history and western civilization, as well as an aficianado of great spy and mystery fiction.

Mike Delaney was born in Boston in 1949 and grew up in Yorktown Heights, NY.  He attended Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers, NY and went on to Villanova University where he majored in accounting, graduating in 1971. After a stint in the army, he began his career with the accounting firm Ernst & Ernst and later with General Foods Corp. in White Plains NY. In 1985 Mike moved to UST Inc. in Greenwich where he served as General Auditor until 2009 when the company was bought out.  Mike and his wife Maricel moved to Darien in 1989. Mike has served as a Board member and Treasurer of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for many years. He and his wife are members of the Country Club of Darien. They have five married children, all graduates of the Darien School System, spread out across the U.S. from New York to Seattle and four grandchildren.  Mike is a lifelong Yankees nut and a big fan of Big East basketball. He enjoys golf, bird watching, traveling and spending time with his grandchildren.