Category: Members (Page 8 of 27)

Ian Webb was born in Childers, Australia in 1957. He received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in mechanical engineering at the University of Queensland in 1978 and 1981 respectively, and was the secretary and captain of the University of Queensland Rugby League club. In 1983 he moved to the US and enrolled in the Operations Research graduate program at MIT, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989. Ian spent several years on the faculty of the UConn business school at Storrs CT before transitioning into a career of more than 25 years in multiple areas of risk management in the payments industry – first with American Express and later with Mastercard. Ian and his wife Lisa have been in Darien since 1996 and have two children. He enjoys travel, photography, reading, and sports, and is a member of the Tokeneke Club.

James Hansford has spent his whole career working in Finance in the UK and USA, performing a wide cross section of roles under the umbrella of Financial Controller, Finance Director, CFO, COO, Real Estate manager and Treasurer.

After qualifying as a chartered accountant, James joined Philip Morris for 2 years, before moving to Midland Bank / HSBC for 12 years. James then joined Lazard in their London office in a Financial Controller / Director role. In 2001, James was offered a 2 year secondment to the New York office to act as the CFO for a newly started private equity business line, which became a 22 year work experience in the USA.

During this time, James’ role expanded and he was responsible for all financial and many operational aspects of Lazard’s global alternative investments’ businesses, historically comprising private equity in the US, Europe and Far East, and venture capital and real estate in the US. James played a significant role in Lazard’s 2005 IPO. James had responsibilities and board director positions for many of Lazard’s worldwide overseas operations for varying periods, performing a COO role.

Recently, James has been involved in some non-profit projects. He assisted the National Executive Service Corps, performing a maturity assessment of a rare disease organization for a large foundation. For several years and still on-going, James has acted as a financial advisor for a Jamaican baker, with an affiliation to the charity Trees That Feed.

James holds a MA (Hons) Degree in Engineering Science and Economics from Oxford University in the UK. He then qualified as a chartered accountant in the UK with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co (now called KPMG) and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the equivalent of a CPA qualification in the USA, and is also a member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Born on Staten Island, New York, in 1942, I attended and graduated from Curtis High School in 1960. After graduating from Nichols College, I was employed by Moody’s Investors Service in the Municipal Bond Department. My position involved analyzing municipalities, utilities and school districts and issuing a quality assessment in the form of a municipal bond rating. In 1972 I was hired by The First Boston Corporation to create a Municipal Bond Research Department. In 1985 I joined Bond Investors Guaranty (BIG), a startup company that insured municipal bonds issued by municipalities, utilities and school districts across the country. BIG was bought out in 1990 by a competitor. I then joined Enhance Financial Services Group and managed the municipal bond insurance group until my retirement in 1996.

We have two children both of whom are graduates of Darien High School. Christine graduated in 1987. She attended Trinity College in Hartford and received her law degree from George Washington University. She and her rowing partner won three World Rowing Championships and a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics in Australia. Christine Collins is now an attorney in the legal division of Boston University. Our son Bernie, after graduating from DHS in 1990 and Guilford College in 1994, started his own company, Stealth Components, in Charlotte, NC. His company has an office in Europe and brokers electronic components worldwide.

We were members of The Country Club of Darien from 1987 until 2012. I was a member of CCD’s Board of Directors for four years and President in 2009. My wife Sonia and I now reside in North Falmouth, MA.

I grew up in Darien in the third generation of Tylers. I graduated from Darien High School (DHS) in 1967 and attended Sacred Heart University before joining the Air Force in 1969, serving in Texas, Vietnam, and California as an Education Specialist and an Aircraft Cargo Loadmaster on C141’s in the Pacific. Following my military service, I attended the University of Connecticut, working summers as a shipyard laborer, casino cook, engineering intern, and independent painting contractor.

After graduating in 1977 with a Degree in Civil Engineering, I worked five years as a structural design engineer in Texas, Stamford, and New Canaan and became a Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Connecticut in 1982. I then worked with Hardesty & Hanover Consulting Engineers, NYC for 16 years focusing on construction management and Resident Engineering. I served as the owner’s representative on major bridge rehabilitation and replacement projects which included the Yankee Doodle over the Norwalk River and two moveable bridges in the Bronx.

The next 25 years were spent with the Slattery Contracting Company (later renamed Skanska USA Civil NE) serving as Quality Manager for mega projects including the JFK AirTrain, Kosciuszko Cable Stayed Bridge, Reconstruction of the World Trade Center, and Moynihan Station on 33rd Street.  During this time, I became a member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and served as voting member on Committees, becoming secretary and Chair of one of them as well as a contributing author, editor, and champion on several ACI publications.

I am a registered PE in Connecticut and New York and hold certifications with ACI, the American Welding Society (AWS), the International Code Council (ICC), and the American Society for Quality (ASQ). 

My wife of 38 years, Nancy Anderson Tyler, recently passed away. Nancy was raised in Fairfield. We spent most of our time together living in Darien. She was a pillar for our family, providing guidance and motivation for both me and our daughter Lindsay, and helping numerous family members. Some of our best memories were home renovation projects early on, time spent with her parents in Fairfield, family trips to Cape Cod, and many great weekends up at Dartmouth to cheer at Lindsay’s swim meets. Aside from her thoughtfulness and sharp memory, she also had a competitive spirit and a generosity that reached friends and teammates in the community. Both Nancy and Lindsay were active at the Middlesex Club and the Darien YMCA. 

My daughter Lindsay was Salutatorian of the DHS Class of 2011 and graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College. She was varsity swim team captain in her senior years at both schools. Lindsay now lives in Manhattan and works at Morgan Stanley as an Executive Director. 

I am recently retired and am in the process of restructuring my life after a 47-year career and a 38-year marriage. I intend to spend more time outside, get more exercise (and a bit better at golf), and finish the numerous projects I never had the time to get to. I enjoy yard work, history channels, anthropology, articles in the Science Times, Mexican food, and BBQ. My favorite sports to watch include baseball, football, and college basketball. I like country, folk, and blues (old stuff) and can play a little on guitar and harmonica (better harmonica than guitar). I look forward to seeing how I can contribute to the DMA.

I was born in Bronxville, NY and grew up in what is now known as Eastchester, but then it was part of Scarsdale, NY.  I attended Kent School and Marietta College (Marietta, OH), graduating in 1976 with a BA in Economics and Business Management.  

I began my career with NCR Corporation the week after graduation, in sales within their Systemedia Division (Business Forms and Supplies).  During my 37 years with NCR I had various roles which included sales, sales management, product management and product development.  

After NCR and I went our separate ways, I did sales work for a few years with small companies before retiring to become a caregiver for my wife.

While at Kent I was a member of two crews that rowed at the Henely Royal Regatta, in 1971 and 1972.  A British acquaintance commented “There are two ways to row at Henely; lose in the first round and enjoy the regatta-or win the damn thing!” That’s exactly what happened-we lost in ’71 yet in ’72 we completed an undefeated season (US Schoolboy Champions) with a Princess Elizabeth Cup win at Henley.

I continued rowing at Marietta, with an undefeated Freshman heavyweight boat (Small College Champions) and 3 years in either the Varsity lightweights or heavyweights. I also met my wife Pam while at Marietta, and we were married in 1975.

With NCR, we called Croton-on-Hudson, NY, Severna Park, MD and Centerville, OH “home” before moving to Darien, in 1988.  Our third son Mark was born here, while Peter was born almost 9 years earlier and Andrew 6 years earlier.

We have had three addresses in Darien the last two on-the-water, allowing me to take up rowing once again.  Beginning in 2006, I’ve competed in various ‘head’ races in my single scull, such as the Head of the Charles, the Schuykill, Head of the Fish and others. Currently I am also a member of the Vero Beach Rowing Club as well as Leander Club (Henley, England) and the Kent School Boat Club.

Since moving to Darien, I have been very involved in volunteer opportunities, from Darien Youth Hockey, Person-to-Person, and a variety of Outreach programs through Saint Luke’s Parish, where I am currently serving a second stint on the Vestry and am a member of its Executive Committee.  I am also a member of the Darien Sail and Power Squadron, serving as its Executive Officer.  I am the proud owner of my Mother’s 1966 Mustang and my 1969 Chris Craft powerboat, which is moored off of Noroton Yacht Club, where I have been a member since 1991.

My wife Pam was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2011, which quickly morphed into Lewy Body Dementia.  Because it was the right thing for me to do, I left my career to become her primary caregiver in 2015.  She passed away in 2021.    I would not trade those years for anything; I learned more about “love” than I ever imagined.

Today, I continue a heavy, heartwarming commitment to volunteer work, I continue to write and row, and I thoroughly enjoy having my two grandsons in Fairfield, CT.

My wife, Laura, and I moved to Rowayton a little over two and a half years ago from Healdsburg, California. We left Healdsburg, located in the Sonoma Country wine country, because the fires they were having there were beginning to look like annual events. We moved here to be closer to our only grandchild, grandson Sam, and his mother, Alison, who live in Chappaqua, NY.  We have another daughter, Amy, who will soon be moving back to the States from Belgium with her husband, A J, who is retiring from the Air Force as an intelligence officer who was on loan to NATO.

I was born in Oakland, California in 1941 but  grew up on a 12 acre property near Walnut Creek, CA on which we had 250 walnut trees. I graduated from the University of the Pacific, located in Stockton, CA in 1962 with a degree in international relations. It is at Pacific where I met Laura, my wonderful wife of 60 years.

After receiving my MBA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967 we moved to Chicago where I began my career in venture capital at The First National Bank of Chicago. We moved back to California in 1972  when I joined Bank of America’s venture capital subsidiary. From there I became a partner at WestVen which was co-founded by Weiss, Peck& Greer and BankAmerica Corporation. I joined Hambrecht & Quist in 1981 where I and three partners ran its venture capital operation. In 1985, one of my H&Q partners, Grant Inman, and I co- founded Inman & Bowman which we successfully ran until 1998. After retiring, I made a number of private investments and participated in a number of volunteer activities including the Board of Regents at the University of the Pacific and board member of the Healdsburg Education Foundation.

Over the years, I have enjoyed golf in many places around the world, but I don’t play much any more. Being an avid golfer and a good golfer are two separate things, and I would describe my golf game as “30 years of beginning golf.” My wife and I started taking bridge lessons at the DCA shortly after moving here and are enjoying bridge very much. However, it is beginning to have that feeling of ” 30 years of beginning bridge.” We also enjoy travel, and reading is another of our common interests .
 

Ed Kweskin was born and raised in Stamford. He graduated from the University of  Pennsylvania in 1968 with a B.A. and then earned a Juris Doctor degree from George  Washington University Law School. After practicing law two years with Community Legal  Services, Inc., in Philadelphia, Ed and his wife Helen moved to Rowayton. He began practicing  law in Stamford with Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin & Kuriansky, and there he has remained as a  partner for over 50 years. Ed is a past president of the Stamford-Darien Bar Association. In 2016,  Connecticut Legal Services and the Connecticut Bar Association honored him with their Pro  Bono Awards.  

Ed served seventeen years as a Commissioner in Rowayton, including ten years as  Commission Chairman. Additionally, Ed is a past president of the Bell Island Improvement  Association, Temple Sinai in Stamford, and the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Club of  Fairfield County. He is currently a member of the Silvermine Golf Club and the Rowayton Yacht  Club.  

Ed and Helen have lived on Bell Island since 1977. They have two children who grew up  in Rowayton. Ed and Helen enjoy traveling, especially to see their three young grandchildren  who live in Geneva, Switzerland. Their three other grandchildren live in nearby Armonk, NY.

William Looney

William (Bill) was born in late December 1953 in the North Country of Vermont – it goes without saying he is very familiar with the last light of day.  An early memory was watching his father build by hand a lake cottage in the Sandwich area of New Hampshire – a place that remained in his family for more than 60 years and inspired some epic father/son bonding trips into fields, streams, bogs and mountains where the destination was not always clear. 

After this early education in the woods, Bill went to school at Connecticut College, where he spent semesters at the London School of Economics but mostly traveled to wild places in Cornwall and Wales. He moved back to New York as a graduate student at the Columbia University School of International Affairs, receiving an advanced degree in 1979.  His working years began shortly after that, as an analyst and writer for the Economist Intelligence Unit, where he was assigned to cover the Canadian market and spent many long winter weeks in Ottawa reporting on Quebec separatism and the country’s dalliance with economic nationalism. Later, he was among the first to uncover the rise of the global consumer movement after the Union Carbide chemical disaster in India, work that gave him the tag line “Bhopal Bill.”     

That led in turn to a long stint in the pharmaceutical industry where he handled public affairs and policy issues in the UK, Japan and other non-US markets for Warner-Lambert and later Pfizer, trying as well to keep the CEOs happy at the Davos World Economic Forum and other ego-embellishing events.   After that came roles as editor of two pharma trade publications, for which he received awards for excellence in editorial commentary.   Currently, Bill contributes part-time to content and event management for a French company, the Galien Foundation, co-founded by the late author and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel to promote medicines innovation as an instrument for global growth, development and peace.  He also works with DMA Secretary Mike Wheeler as an English tutor for new immigrants, in a program run by Family Centers of Greenwich/Stamford.   

Bill now lives in Darien with his wife Andrea, who he met early at his first job, being told by the boss to offer his seat (reluctantly) to her, as the fresh new face from the Economist’s Washington office.  Forty years later, Bill still has that bentwood office chair, now at home — and continues the (now not so easy) practice of offering his spare seat to a stranger – because you never know what good can happen when you do. 

I was born in Elmhurst, IL in 1956 and grew up in Los Angeles and Seward, NE. In 2022, after 41 years in Houston, my wife Kathy and I retired and moved to Darien to be near our daughter, Sarah, her husband, and our two granddaughters.

I have a B.S. in Life Sciences from the University of Nebraska and a Master’s of Urban Planning from Texas A&M University. I began my career with the City of Houston Planning and Development Department and later moved on to the Houston Galveston Area Council, where I was Director of Community and Environmental Planning for 35 years. I am a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and served as a Site Visitor for the Planning Accreditation Board which reviews and accredits collegiate urban planning degree programs. I am also currently serving on the Town of Darien’s Great Island Advisory Committee. I enjoy playing guitar and basketball.

Lou Rawden grew up in Cheshire, Conn.  He graduated with a B.S. degree from Bryant University in 1978 and an MS degree from the University of Hartford in 1980.  Lou started his career as a CPA with Deloitte and Touche in Stamford, Conn and over the years transitioned to banking .  In March of 2022 Lou retired from Apple Bank in New York City after a 30 year career  where he last served as Chief Financial Officer.  

Lou lives in Darien with his wife Kathy.   They moved to Darien in 1985.  Their two children Katie and Lou Jr. were educated in the public school system.   Lou was active with Darien Little League serving as a coach, commissioner and in the initial fund raising for the McGuane baseball fields and over the years has held several Board positions at the Middlesex Club.     Lou and Kathy are long time members of the Middlesex Club and enjoy racquet sports, biking, hiking and golf.