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Jon Bigelow was born in Mineola, NY, then moved to Darien as a child. After graduating from Darien High School and Brown University, he launched a career in healthcare publishing and communications. He began as a medical writer and editor, working on a series of practical and widely-read clinical journals for physicians, and eventually rose to become President of Cliggott Publishing.

Then he joined with a private equity sponsor to acquire, and serve as President and CEO of, a group of businesses in the U.S., U.K., and Germany, which he brought together as KnowledgePoint360 Group. This grew to become the largest privately-held medical communications firm, providing publication planning, launch strategy, market access strategy, digital services, commercial benchmarking, and workflow solutions.

Since selling KnowledgePoint360, Jon has divided his time among serving as Executive Director of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication, serving on boards at two companies and an ocean sciences laboratory, and consulting and speaking on healthcare policy and communications. He has long been active in the First Congregational Church of Darien and in community organizations.

Jon and his wife, Mariann, split their time between Wilton and a summer cottage on the Maine coast. Mariann is an editor and tutors high school juniors and seniors in writing skills. Their son, James, is a software engineer and product manager in Manhattan. Jon spends free time running, hiking, sea kayaking, traveling, and reading.

Per is a seasoned entrepreneur and C-suite executive with a 40+ year track record in private equity, investment banking, risk management, commodity trading, and insurance. As an entrepreneur he has founded or led several startup companies over the past 13 years, raising over $30 million in private equity for the various ventures. Most recently, Per was CEO & CFO of Presidium USA, Inc., a private equity backed chemical technology company. At the end of 2022, he led a management buyout of Presidium’s chemical business through a new company (Novellus Resin Systems) he established in partnership with Presidium’s former CTO. While launching the new venture takes some of his time, Per offers fractional CEO/COO/CFO consulting services to startups and early stage ventures in his spare time.

Per holds a BA in Economics from Colgate University and has been a long-time alumni mentor in Colgate’s student entrepreneurship program Thought into Action. Per is a past Board President of Person-to-Person (P2P) and remains active as a volunteer and Board Emeritus.

Doug Scott, aka “Scotty” or “Coach” was born in rural Northern California, (Shasta County) in 1959. For eight years of his youth he rode over 500 horse races as a jockey, until a six inch growth spurt at  age 16 ended that run.
He graduated high school and followed a college scholarship opportunity to the University of Dayton. The next three years after college, he worked for Arthur Andersen, two of which he was based in the Middle East.

In 1986, he picked up both a MBA and a wife (Jackie) at Harvard Business School. From there he worked a nine year Wall Street career, including the first four years as part of Michael Milken’s junk bond desk at Drexel Burnham.

After Drexel’s demise, he and Jackie moved to Darien in 1990, raised four kids, a foster child and a foreign exchange student. That overlapped a 32 year basketball coaching career, which ended as the boys’ varsity basketball
coach at Greens Farms Academy. While at GFA, he was selected by his coaching peers as the New England Prep School Coach of the Year three times.

He now spends a lot of his time managing a mens college basketball scouting service called RecruitTheBronx.com and he hosts a couple of the country’s largest college basketball prospect showcases each year.

Born: Seattle, WA 1955