John Del Col was born in 1961 in Vineland, New Jersey, and grew up in Haworth, New Jersey. In 1984 he graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College with a A.B. degree in history. While at Dartmouth, he was a member of the Alpine Ski Team and the Casque and Gauntlet senior society. After graduation, he worked several years marketing telex services for RCA Communications in New York, N.Y., where he met his future wife (Kathleen). Recognizing the imminent demise of the telex machine, John returned to school, graduating from Harvard Law School cum laude in 1989. He worked in private law practice in New York City at Sullivan & Cromwell and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, as Assistant General Counsel at MeesPierson (a Dutch merchant bank) and as General Counsel at Chartwell Re Corporation and Trenwick Group Inc. John’s spent the last 19 years of his career working as General Counsel at Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd., an international insurance company headquartered in Bermuda. He retired in 2022.
John and Kathleen were married in 1989, have been Darien residents since 1996 and have four adult children. They belong to Woodway Country Club and the Killington Ski Club. For hobbies, John enjoys skiing, water skiing, running, cycling and golf.
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