Robert Cudd was born and raised in New York City in 1946. He graduated from Buckley School in 1960. He attended Exeter Academy from 1960 to 1963 and graduated from Le College Cevenol in France in 1964, where he participated in cross country and squash. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford in 1968 with a B.A. in the Classics and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. He studied in Rome at the Intercollegiate School for Classical Studies in 1967. He received his J.D. in 1974 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an L.L.M. in taxation from New York University Law School in 1976. From 1968 to 1971, Robert served as budget and fiscal officer of the 502nd Military Intelligence Battalion in Seoul, Korea. His business history is all in taxation. He worked at Brown Wood in New York City from 1974 to 1978 and spent the next 25 years with firms in New York and San Francisco, ending his career as senior tax partner at Polsinelli P.C. from 2014-2018. Robert and his wife Nancy live in Darien and have three children and four grandchildren with two more expected soon. He belongs to the Tokeneke Club and the Yale Club of New York City, is treasurer of the DKE Club of New York City and is a trustee of the Darien Library. In his leisure time, he enjoys jogging, hiking, boating and reading. Sponsored by Pete Scull