I was born in 1953 in Massachusetts. My family lived in Carlisle and I spent summers with my grandparents in Marion. In 1972, I graduated from St. Mark’s School and made a beeline to Colorado to go to college and ski. I received my BS in Finance in 1976 and my MBA in 1977, both from the University of Denver.
I was a commercial banker for 44 years. My first job, starting in 1977, was in Los Angeles with Crocker National Bank. I then joined First Chicago in 1983 and spent the next 20 years working for them in Los Angeles, Chicago, and NY. For the last 16 years, until retirement in 2022, I worked for Helaba (Landesbank Hessen) in NY. Since 1992, I focused on serving the needs of clients in the insurance industry in the US, Canada, and Bermuda.
In 1980, my wife Joanna and I were married in San Diego. Our two kids were born in the next few years in Long Beach. Leaving Los Angeles in 1988, we lived in Chicago for 3 ½ years before a transfer to New York in 1991 brought us to Darien. We are long time members of St Luke’s Parish and Noroton Yacht Club. Our daughter, son-in-law, and three grandchildren live in Darien and our son lives in Brooklyn. I’ve enjoyed volunteering in the communities where we’ve lived. Among my interests are gardening and landscaping, being on the water, skiing, and traveling, with the most frequent destination being St. Croix where my wife was raised.
