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Geoffrey is an OBGYN, recently retired and relocated from Houston in January. He was a Clinical Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine with a special interest in Minimally Invasive and Robotic Gynecological surgery. Geoffrey moved to Darien with his wife Joan, to be close to his son, daughter and 4 grandchildren who live in Weston.

Mr. Ritchey is 65 years old and recently retired as Chairman of K2 Advisors (an $11 billion hedge fund division within Franklin Templeton Investments). His 42 year career focused on the following investment areas:

a) Analyzing market and macroeconomic conditions,
b) Determining responsible asset allocation tilts,
c) Managing institutional and high net worth portfolios.

Mr. Ritchey began his investment career in 1982 as a proprietary trader for the NYSE Specialist Firm of Conklin, Cahill & Co. Since 1987, Mr. Ritchey has successfully managed multi-asset institutional and registered mutual fund hedged portfolios while located in New York, Paris, Connecticut, and Fort Lauderdale during his employment with organizations including K2 Advisors (a Franklin Templeton Investments company), Steinhardt Partners, Citibank, Finch Asset Management, Paribas, AIG, and ING/Barings.

He is married to Sarah Griffin Ritchey and has two wonderful daughters; Campbell and Lauren. He enjoys competitive sailing, investments, tennis, and completing/removing items from his ‘Honey-Do” list. His sponsor is Doug Bora.

Mark Campbell was born in Holyoke, MA and grew up in Belchertown, MA. He received his BBA in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He moved to the Stamford, CT area in 1993 to attend Pace University where he received his MBA and JD. Mark moved to Darien with his wife, Vikki, in 2002. They have two sons: Brady, currently a Junior at Sacred Heart University, and Taylor, currently a Senior at DHS, where he is captain of this year’s varsity baseball team. 

Mark owns a business valuation firm, Scout Valuations, in Stamford and has been providing business valuations for 25 years. Mark began his career at Deloitte (where he met his wife) in 1997 and had additional stints at a boutique investment bank in Westport and regional accounting firm in Shelton, prior to starting Scout. 

Mark is active at Saint Luke’s Parish and the YMCA and is currently the treasurer for Darien Babe Ruth. He enjoys golf, skiing and the outdoors.

I first came to Darien in the mid-70’s for a wedding, with no idea this would become my home for the past forty years.  I grew up in Falls Church, Virginia, graduated from Princeton University, followed by a year of active duty in the US Navy Reserve Hospital Corps, and graduation from the Harvard Business School. Health care, starting with the Navy, has been the single, continuing thread throughout my career – with numerous roles in management consulting, investment banking (First Boston), and 20 years as an investment research analyst (at Sanford Bernstein and Legg Mason) – all focused on the healthcare industry.  Eight years ago, my wife, now deceased, mentioned that we knew a lot of people who were confused by Medicare. That led to my current work in health and life insurance at Bankers Life.

I have a son who is a junior at Darien High School and beginning the college search and application process. Over the years, I have been involved in his sports and activities in Darien, and a member of the Noroton Yacht Club and St. Lukes Church.

Howard Courtemanche grew up in Oyster Bay, LI, Mendham, NJ, and Tuxedo Park, NY. He graduated from Delbarton School, Morristown NJ and Bowdoin College.

He has worked on Madison Avenue for 41 years. Rising to CEO and President of the Health. Divisions of J. Walter Thompson and Young and Rubicam for holding company WPP. Clients over his career have included Procter and Gamble, General Mills, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, and Merck.

He met his wife Amanda in Manhattan, and they married in 1992 in Newport, RI. They moved to Rowayton in 1995 and have raised their 3 children there. Marguerite, who lives in Brisbane, Australia with her husband Lucien who she met at JP Morgan, Charlie, who lives in Boston and works in Biotech in Cambridge, Mass, and Win, who will complete his BA in Economics this May.

Howard has been an active member of St. Luke’s Parish since moving to Rowayton. He and Amanda are also members of Roton Point, Rowayton Yacht Club and the Yale Club of NYC.

Howard loves the NY Yankees and Bruce Springsteen in addition to his wonderful family.

I was born in Cambridge, Mass and grew up in Duxbury, Mass. I went to Phillips Exeter (’75) and then to Colby College (’79) where I majored in Economics and History. My first job after college was fracking oil wells in California (1980). After a year of that (and almost getting killed twice), I started my 43 year career on Wall Street where I held Managing Director roles at Greenwich Capital Markets, UBS, RBS and, for my last 9 years, at Citigroup where I was Head of US Rates Desk Strategy.

I met my wife at the Canadian Grand Prix in 1983 and we were married in 1984. We moved to Darien in 1987 and have no plans/desires to ever leave. We raised 5 daughters here, all of whom went to New Canaan Country School before scattering. I have 5 grandchildren. My interests include fishing, skiing, hunting (upland birds), swimming and cribbage. I’d love to add table tennis and other endeavors to this list…

David Earle was born in Williamstown, MA.,  and moved to Darien when he was three. He attended Darien High School, then Williams College and L’Ecole Normale de Musique as a music and theater major, graduating in 1968.  His career began with teaching high school French in Arizona and evolved into college text book publishing, arts administration, public television, cable television, broadcast television, technology consulting and human resources consulting.