Joe Roxe grew up on Long Island. He graduated from Chaminade and Princeton University before enlisting in the Navy in January 1959. After three and a half years as a gunnery and anti-submarine officer aboard a destroyer based in Newport, RI, he left the Navy, received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and joined Mobil Oil in New York. He spent 23 years with the company in a variety of management roles in London and New York before leaving Mobil to become a partner at Johnson & Higgins, the world’s largest private insurance broker. He left J&H in 1997 after helping to negotiate the sale of the firm to Marsh & McLennan. He continues to be active as Chairman of Bay Holdings, a private investment holding company and The Roxe Foundation. Joe has been happily married to Maureen since 1965. They have three children and eight grandchildren living in Boston, Baltimore and Connecticut.
He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Navy War College Foundation and as a board member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and as a Dean’s Council at the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy. He is a past President of Wee Burn Country Club. Governor Jodi Rell appointed him Chairman of the State of Connecticut Investment Advisory Council in Hartford to oversee the $26 billion of investments in the State Teachers and Employees’ pension plan.
Joe is a Knight of Malta and a Papal Knight in the order of St. Silvester.
