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Dave Weiss was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1947 and grew up in Floral Park. He graduated from Martin Van Buren High School in Jamaica, N.Y. He graduated from SUNY New Paltz with a B.S. in education in 1968 and was active in the Patterson Club, skiing, tennis, golf and platform tennis.  After graduation, Dave worked for five years for the New York City Board of Education. He then became involved in sales with Burlington Industries and West Point Pepperell until 1985. He worked for Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York City and Los Angeles until 1990. In New York and Connecticut, Dave worked for Merrill Lynch, various banks and Rafferty Capital Markets. From 2010 to 2018, when he retired, he was with BMO Capital Markets in New York City as head of Leveraged Finance Sales, Trading and Research. John and his wife Stacy live in Fairfield and have three children and two grandchildren. Dave continues his interest in skiing, tennis and golf in spare moments of leisure. Sponsored by Scott Hutchason

Steve Ward was born in New York City in 1945 and grew up in Darien. He graduated from Portsmouth Abbey in 1963, where he was active in soccer and sailing. Steve graduated from Colby College in 1968 with a B.A. in economics and was active in his fraternity and varsity soccer. He received an M.B.A. from the University of Utah in 1970. Steve served in the U.S. Air Force from 1968 to 1972, repairing and modifying Phantom jets in the United States, Europe and Asia. He worked at General Electric from 1972 to 1988 and was involved in contracting, traveling audit and financial management. Steve was with Sterling Drug from 1988 through 1995 and was chief financial officer (CFO) for Europe. He was CFO of Sanofi in the United States from 1995 through 2001. Steve and his wife Sandra live in Rowayton and have two sons and a daughter. He has three grandchildren with another expected in December. Steve belongs to Wee Burn Country Club, Country Club of Florida and St. Andrews Club in Delray Beach, Fla. He also is a member of the Community Fund of Darien and George Washington Carver of Norwalk. For leisure, Steve enjoys tennis, golf and history. Sponsored by
David McCollum.

Sunil was born in Lucknow, India in 1944. He graduated high school from La Martiniere College, Lucknow ( Google that) and received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

He worked at Union Carbide India before proceeding to University of California at Berkeley for graduate work. He received both a Masters Degree in Engineering as well as an MBA from Berkeley. He worked as a Mechanical Engineer at American Can Company in San Francisco where his claim to fame is he designed the machine that puts the can cover on the beer can making it safe for you beer drinkers to imbibe. For the majority of his career he was in finance: first, as an international banker with Bankers Trust Company serving in Mumbai, Singapore and New York and then, as an investment advisor with Fidelity Investments from which he retired in 2004.

He and his wife, Deepika have lived in Darien since 1985. They have two sons, one a doctor and the the other a lawyer.

Lawrence Dunbar Cavanagh Jr. was born in Norwalk in 1942. He graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School and then attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service (when Bill Clinton was there). After serving in the merchant marine and the U.S. Navy, Lawrence earned a BS and MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business. From 1973 to 1976, he was with the New York Fed (in economic research). After that, he was a writer and editor at Business International (in a job later held by Barack Obama). Lawrence’s next employment was at European American Bank, where he created and ran their currency forecasting service. Later, he worked for the Chicago Board Options Exchange in a truly transformative position as liaison between the Exchange and major trading desks. From 1991 until retirement in 2011, Lawrence worked for Value Line Inc., where he re-modeled, redesigned, and ran Value Line Options, an online subscription service (available at the Darien Library). He met his wife, Eleanor Reimer, in 1972, when she was working on her PhD in Medieval History. They live in Rowayton. Lawrence is a member of the Saugatuck Shore Club, a board member of the Norwalk Symphony, and president of a 97-yer-old charity foundation.

Sponsored by Jim Frayer.