CONCORD ACADEMY - Key Persons
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- Co - Director of Community and Equity
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- P'26 '27 - Co - Chair, Alum Annual Fund, Ex - Officio
Alexis graduated from CA in 1987, then attended Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law. Alexis started as a litigator at Palmer & Dodge in Boston and then joined Oracle as an in-house counsel in 2001. He served as its chief privacy officer from 2013 through 2018 until joining Citrix in 2019, where he is also the CPO. Alexis lives in Concord, Mass., with his wife, Lynne, and two daughters, Charlotte and Josephine, who attend the Nashoba Brooks School. His mother, Catherine Petersen Mack graduated from CA in 1964 and his step-sisters Aeron and Megan Mack graduated in 1983 and 1984. Alexis previously served on the CA Board between 2003 and 2007 and is looking forward to reprising his role as co-chair of the Alum Annual Fund.
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- Assistant
- Head
- Assistant Head for Advancement and Engagement
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- Chief Financial and Operating Officer
Andrew Ory, one of the co-founders of 128 Technology, has served as the company's chief executive officer and board member since inception. Prior to 128 Technology, Andrew co-founded Acme Packet in August 2000 and served as its chief executive officer and president until Acme Packet's acquisition in 2013 by Oracle Corporation. Andrew also founded Priority Call Management and served as its chief executive officer and chairman until its sale to LHS group in 1999. Andrew is involved in several educational and philanthropic organizations. He is a trustee at the Fenn School in Concord. He is the board chair at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University. He also is a board member of the Lincoln, Mass., Historic District Commission and the Lincoln Historic Committee. Andrew holds a B.A. from Harvard University. Andy lives in Lincoln, Mass., with his wife, Linda, and their children Abigail '16, Audrey, and Tyler '21.
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- Computer Science Department Head
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- Modern and Classical Languages Department Head
Carolyn Stafford Stein served for more than 20 years in Harvard Law School's Office of Public Interest Advising, counseling Harvard Law students and alums regarding public service careers. As a lecturer at HLS, Carolyn taught government lawyering and supervised students in clinical placements. A former assistant United States attorney, Carolyn prosecuted white-collar crimes for the Department of Justice in Boston and was special counsel to the assistant attorney general in Washington. At CA, Carolyn has volunteered in a variety of CA Parents programs and served as a member of the CA Parents executive committee and, with her husband Eric, as co-chair of the 2011 Senior Parent Gifts Program. She is the board chair emeritus of Acre Family Child Care in Lowell, Mass., and she continues to be active in nonprofits in Lowell dedicated to economic independence for women and high quality early childhood education. Carolyn is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Brown University. She lives in Carlisle, Mass, with Eric and their three daughters, Natalie '17, Audrey '14, and Lena '11.
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- CEO and Head of School at Beacon Academy
- Trustee for the Foundation for MetroWest
Dr. Carter is the CEO and head of school at Beacon Academy. Before joining Beacon, Dr. Carter was a founding member of the leadership team for Project Evident, a national organization focused on helping not-for-profit organizations and philanthropic foundations harness the power of evidence to achieve greater impact. He also co-created and led a virtual learning program for practitioners and leaders called Talent Accelerator. Similarly, Dr. Carter designed and piloted the Data & Evidence Equity Guide, a tool to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into evidence building. Prior to that, he served as deputy director and chief strategy officer at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, where he created a learning strategy and built the capacity of individuals, organizations, and systems to drive and scale innovation.
Dr. Carter is currently a trustee for the Foundation for MetroWest and a past member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Evaluation Advisory Committee. He has been an adjunct faculty member at Boston College Graduate School of Social Work and guest lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and Simmons College Graduate Schools of Management and Social Work. He earned his master's degree in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Ph.D. in social work from Boston College.
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- Director of Counseling Services
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- Advancement and Engagement Communications Project Manager
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- Founding Partner and CIO of Rip Road Capital Partners LP
Dennis Goldstein is the founding partner and CIO of Rip Road Capital Partners LP, an investment firm in Boston. Previously, Dennis was a managing director at Bain Capital in the firm's public equity business (Bain Capital Public Equity/Brookside), where he focused primarily on the global consumer space. Earlier in his career, Dennis was a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, after beginning his career as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley. Outside of work, Dennis currently serves on the board of trustees for the Epiphany School, an independent school for economically disadvantaged families in Boston. In addition, he serves on the board of advisors of the Center for Social Impact at Dartmouth College. Dennis earned an A.B. in English from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford University. He and his wife, Beth, live in Weston, Mass., and are the proud parents of Ryan, Devin, Sara '20, and Aspen '25.
Derrick is committed to bringing his visionary mindset and international perspectives to the Board of Trustees. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a B.S. and earned a master's degree in civil and environmental engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a doctorate in civil engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the chief executive officer and chief operating officer of Asia Allied Infrastructure Holdings Limited. Derrick was appointed to the Economic Development Commission and the Land and Development Advisory Committee and served on the Construction Industry Council. He dedicates his time and effort in philanthropy and founded a non-profit organization called Lifewire, an online crowdfunding platform that raises funds to help children who have medical needs. An amateur photographer, Derrick loves to take pictures. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife, Etta, and his son, Darius. Derrick's sister, Angela '95, also graduated from CA.
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- Director of Campus Planning, Design, and Construction
Dr. Rachel Glick grew up on the east side of Detroit and was a boarder at CA, graduating in 1977. She then attended the Integrated Premedical-Medical Program (Inteflex) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, receiving her B.A. in 1981 and her M.D. in 1984. She completed an internal medicine internship and residency in New York City at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center before moving to Boston for her psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. She joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School after one year as a clinical instructor at Harvard. She served in a number of roles at the University of Michigan Medical School, including associate dean for student programs, director of medical student education in psychiatry, associate chair for clinical and administrative affairs in psychiatry, and medical director of psychiatric emergency services. She retired from UM in 2019 but continues to do some clinical work in the psychiatric emergency services as an active clinical professor emerita. She has been involved in multiple state and national professional organizations, holding a number of leadership roles. She completed seven years of service on the Temple Beth Emeth (Ann Arbor, Mich.) board of trustees in 2020, including three years on the executive committee as vice president for membership. She is married to Gary Glick, a former professor of chemistry at UM and biotech CEO. Her daughter, Hannah, is a third year medical student at UM, and her son, Jeremy, is a first-year law student at George Washington University.
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- Director of the Annual Fund
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- Annual Fund and Alum Programs Officer
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- Director of Communications and Marketing
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- Head of School
- Head of School, Dresden Endowed Chair, Ex Officio
Before joining Concord Academy as its 11th head of school in July 2022, Henry Fairfax was the founding head of school at Revolution School in Philadelphia. At Revolution, which is committed to experiential learning and community partnerships, Fairfax was responsible for all aspects of the school, including appointing the founding educators and core academic team, curriculum development and design, and establishing effective advancement strategies in support of their commitment to provide access to all deserving students, regardless of their ability to pay. Under his leadership, Revolution School earned its Pennsylvania Department of Education license for grades 9-12 and Pennsylvania Association for Independent Schools initial accreditation and in record time and moved to a new, permanent home in Center City Philadelphia.
Prior to Revolution, Fairfax served as vice president of enrollment management and institutional advancement at Girard College in Philadelphia, a tuition-free boarding school that has enrolled underserved youth from single-parent/guardian homes since 1848. In his three years at Girard, Fairfax overhauled the enrollment management and fundraising operations to bring both up to industry standards. He also served as director of admissions at the Haverford School in Haverford, Penn. (his alma mater), as director of the Foundations Program at McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Md., and as program director for the Middle Grades Partnership, an enrichment program that he developed with funding from the Baltimore Community Foundation. Fairfax has also taught English and coached basketball.
A graduate of Drexel University, where he majored in marketing, Fairfax played four years of Division I basketball and served as captain his senior year, earning a trip to the NCAA NIT Tournament. He holds an M.Ed. in school leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and continues to serve as a university mentor within its Graduate School of Education.
Fairfax's own experience of a transformational education, at The Haverford School, set him on his path in independent school education. Throughout his career, he has been active in supporting first-generation independent school students and fostering innovative partnerships. His approach to leadership is based in relationship, shaped by flexible thinking, and guided by mission. Fairfax lives on CA's campus with his family, which includes his wife, Ivy, and their children, Brooklyn, Bryce, Cassius, Prime, and Apollo.
Imani was born in Birmingham, Ala., and reared in Cambridge, Mass. She is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she also teaches in the programs in law and public affairs and gender and sexuality studies and is affiliated with the University Center for Human Values and the program in jazz studies. After graduating from Concord Academy, Imani attended Yale College, where she earned a bachelor's degree with a double major in literature and American studies. She went on to earn a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, both in 2000. As a postgraduate fellow at Georgetown Law Center, she earned an LL.M. in the history of property and contract law. Imani was a professor at Rutgers Law School until 2009, when she joined the faculty at Princeton. She is the author of numerous articles and book reviews and of six books, including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2018 and winner of Pen America's Pen/Bograd Weld Award in Biography and the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. Her book May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem was a 2018 finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Outstanding Nonfiction. Imani lives outside of Philadelphia with her sons, Freeman and Issa Rabb, ages 15 and 13.
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- Co - President
- Retired Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Jennifer Burleigh '85 is a retired partner of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, an international law firm, where her practice focused on advising managers of private equity funds and other alternative asset pools. She served on the Private Investment Funds Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and on the board of trustees of Prep for Prep. Ms. Burleigh is also a trustee of The Caedmon School. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a managing editor of the Columbia Law Review. She received her B.A. with honors from Stanford University. She lives in New York City with her husband, William Regner, and daughter Sarah.
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- Gift Entry and Record Management Specialist
Jennifer Pline is an investment executive who spent her 40 year career in the financial services industry. She retired as the head of wealth management at Cambridge Trust Company in 2023, where she was also a member of Cambridge Trust Company's Management Committee. Her previous experience includes 11 years at Harvard Management Company and 18 years at Standish Mellon Asset Management. Jennifer received an MBA from the Carroll Graduate School of Management at Boston College and a B.A. from Boston College. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is an advisor emerita at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham, a Trustee at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and serves on the investment committee at Mass Audubon. Jennifer and her husband, Hans Oettgen, reside in Wellesley, Mass. They have two daughters, Hannah Oettgen '13 and Charlotte Oettgen '15.
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- Mathematics Department Head
John Abele is inextricably linked to CA - through his wife, an alum, Mary Seton Abele '56; his three children, Christopher '86, Alexander '87, and Jennifer '90; and his service on Concord Academy's Board of Trustees from 1991 to 2002. John is co-founder of Boston Scientific, a medical device company with more than 25,000 employees, and was president of Medi-tech, Inc. He retired from Boston Scientific in 2005. John is the owner of the Kingbridge Conference Centre and Institute in King City, Ontario. He is the vice chair of the board of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Foundation and is a member of the President's Council of Olin College. John also chairs his family foundation, the Argosy Foundation, and is trustee emeritus of Amherst College, where he received his B.A. John and Mary live in Shelburne, Vt.
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- Associate Director of Admissions
John J. Moriarty P'02, '05, '07 served as president of the Board of Trustees from 2009 to 2013 and has been a member of the board since 1999. He graduated from Phillips Academy Andover and earned his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University. Since 1985, he has been president of John Moriarty & Associates, a commercial building contractor with offices in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Virginia, Florida, and North Carolina. John founded the firm after 12 years with Turner Construction, Inc. John has served as an officer on the board of the Nashoba Brooks School, president of the board of Belmont Day School, a member of the facilities committee at the Fenn School, and a member of the board of directors of the Winchester Co-operative Bank. He lives in Winchester, Mass., with his wife, Carol. His children are Kate '02, Claire '05, and John '07.
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- Senior Investment and Financial Management Executive
Jonathan (Jon) DeSimone is a senior investment and financial management executive with 20+ years' experience at leading alternative asset management and management consulting firms. He currently serves as a strategic advisor and board member, helping investors and asset managers improve performance. He served as the CEO of Alcentra, a $40 billion alternative credit manager, from 2020 to 2022. From 2002 until 2019, he worked at Bain Capital Credit (fka Sankaty Advisors) in Boston and London. Jon was a portfolio manager in the firm's liquid credit business and a member of the BCC Credit Committee. Prior to that he worked at Bain & Company from 1992 to 2002 supporting a variety of clients in the consumer, industrial and private equity sectors. Jon received an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a BA from Georgetown University. He is a Trustee at St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers, Concord Academy in Concord and Franciscan Childrens Hospital in Brighton. Jon and his wife, Vicki, reside in Breckenridge, CO. They have two sons, Brendan and Christian, and a daughter, Portia.
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- Director of Medical Services
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Karen attended Concord Academy on an A Better Chance scholarship. She completed her education at Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. After pediatric and newborn medicine training at Boston Children's Hospital, she became a staff neonatologist at Boston Children's Hospital and a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. Her career has included clinical work, basic science research, and administrative and policy work. Karen currently serves as the medical director of the Special Care Nursery at Winchester Hospital and medical director of the Beth Israel Lahey Neonatology Network and works clinically and administratively. She is a past president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and current chair of the chapter's Legislative Committee. As an advisor to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, she has served on the state's Perinatal Committee, Birth Defects Monitoring Program Advisory Committee, Newborn Screening Advisory Committee, and the Task Force on Management of Maternal and Neonatal Substance Exposure. She is a long-term, dedicated volunteer for the Concord Academy Alumnae/i Association, which she served as president from 2020 to 2022. Previously she was co-chair of the Alum Community and Equity Committee and helped to imagine, create, and execute CA's Alum and Students of Color Conference. Karen is also a trustee for The Governor's Academy. She has received leadership training with Boston's The Partnership program. Karen is married to Kwame Ofori-Asante and has two sons, Alexander and James. They reside in Lynnfield, Mass.
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- Director of Advancement Services
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- Associate Head for Community Engagement & Business Development
Kim Williams joined Concord Academy's Board of Trustees in the fall of 2009, and served as president from 2013-2018. Kim holds a Master of Science degree in economics from the University of London and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and French from Kingston Polytechnic, London. She spent the majority of her professional career working in investment management and retired in 2005 as senior vice-president and partner of Boston-based Wellington Management. Kim was a noted leader in the business world, and while advancing her own career, advocated for women in business and brought about progress for women in many industry-leading organizations. She currently sits on the board of several companies involved in a range of production, including forest products, renewable energy, and media. Kim currently lives in Newbury, Mass. with her husband, Trevor Miller. They are the proud parents of Alexander '08, Ben '14, and Rebecca '14.
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- President of CA 's Board of Trustees
Linden Havemeyer Wise shares with CA all she has learned from nearly three decades working with educational institutions and other nonprofits. Long dedicated to CA, Linden served on the Board of Trustees for 19 years and presided over it from 1991 to 1995. A graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School, Linden is a special counsel to the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She chairs the board of the Chapin School in New York City, a board she has served since 1992. She also sits on the board of Early Steps, which promotes diversity in New York City independent schools. Linden has served on the boards of the Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Mass.; the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vt; and Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children, a New York-based adoption agency. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Scott; they have two children, Harry and Lucie.
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- Director of Admissions Operations
A longtime supporter of Concord Academy, Marion Freeman began her first term on the Concord Academy Board of Trustees in 1986 and continued until 1997, spending the last six years of that term as treasurer. She stayed off the board only a year, returning as president and overseeing a capital campaign and a head search process, which resulted in Jake Dresden joining CA. To honor outgoing head Tom Wilcox, Marion raised more than $2 million for the Wilcox Leadership Fund. She stepped down as president in 2002, but stayed on the board until 2003, serving on various committees and allowing a smooth transition for the next board president, Henry P. Becton Jr. Marion became a life trustee in 2002. Marion earned a B.A. in romance languages from Princeton and a Ph.D. in French from Yale. At CA, she taught, coached squash, served as a house parent in Phelps House, and was an assistant director of admissions from 1973 to 1974. After earning her Ph.D. in 1980, she taught French at Yale and became a dean of one of the residential colleges there. Shortly thereafter, she began her career in international banking by joining JP Morgan in New York. Marion has served on various boards in Maine, including that of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute; and the Portland Museum of Art. Marion still remains very involved with CA. She has served as a leadership solicitor, a class agent solicitor, a phonathon caller, and a member of her 40th-reunion committee. She has remained on CA's investment subcommittee since her departure from active board duty. Marion lives in South Freeport, Maine, with her husband Corson Ellis, CEO and founder of Kepware Technologies in Portland, Maine. They have a daughter, Linden, and a son, Francis.
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- Director of Enrollment Management
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- Associate Director of Admissions and Coordinator of Multicultural Outreach
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- Assistant Director of Engagement & Parent Programs
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- Fund and Alum Programs Officer
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- Performing Arts Department Head
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- Visual Arts Department Head
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- Assistant Head for Academic Program and Equity
Rose Peabody Lynch '67 (Podie) has over 30 years of brand management experience in the health, beauty, and fashion industries. She served as a chief operating officer for over 13 years: as president of Danskin, Inc., chief operating officer of LeRoi Princeton, Inc., and SVP General Manager of Merchandising for Victoria's Secret Fragrance, a division of Victoria's Secret. She currently serves as a Director on two corporate boards: Steve Madden, LTD, the publicly traded fashion shoe company, and General American Investors Company, Inc., an NYSE closed-end fund. She recently stepped down after 10 years as President of her Princeton Class and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Princeton Varsity Club. Podie is a member of the U.S. Foreign Policy and Women Advisory Council at the Council on Foreign Relations. Podie served as a Trustee for Concord Academy from 2015 to 2021. She has served as a non-trustee member of CA's Audit and Investment Committees since 2021. She will also serve as a co-chair of CA's Strategic Planning Committee. Podie is a graduate of Princeton University and received her MBA from Harvard Business School.
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- Associate Head for Teaching, Learning, and Faculty
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- Vice President
- Founder of METEOR Venture Capital
Sean Dalton has led early-stage technology investments for over twenty years. Sean is the founder of METEOR Venture Capital, focusing on "first check" investments in technology-based companies. Previously Sean served as Managing General Partner of Highland Capital Partners, a global venture capital firm. Sean has been recognized multiple times by the Forbes Midas List as one of the top venture capitalists in the industry. Sean holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware. Sean and his wife Julie live in Winchester, Mass.; together they have four children.
Troncoso recounted his time at Harvard, feeling like an outsider, and his journey to Yale to learn German and philosophy. When he was feeling discouraged, he said, his abuela's words gave him strength: "Show them who you are."
"She knew how to survive in a hostile world," Troncoso said. "She knew how to fight." He also translated his parents' incredible work ethic into mental stamina.
"You cross a border because you are searching," he said. "[That crossing] questions the very idea of home. … I cross borders because I believe that is how you tell the truth and honor the authenticity of who you are."
To aspiring writers, he gave this advice: "If you're writing something real, you're going to get somebody mad at you. … Be self-critical. But don't be self-destructive."
Troncoso is the author of eight books, including Nobody's Pilgrims, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, and others. His work explores the working-class immigrant experience from multiple perspectives.
He won a Fulbright, teaches fiction and nonfiction at the Yale Writers' Workshop, and has won numerous literary awards, including the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story and the Premio Aztlan Literary Prize. A branch of the public library in El Paso is named in his honor.
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- Senior Leadership and Planned Giving Officer
Steve is a commercial litigator who also advises clients on complex issues arising in the litigation and transactional context, with a particular focus on technology, complex financial instruments, intellectual property and employment matters. He regularly practices before financial industry arbitral panels and represents clients in related state and federal court actions. Steve also has an active intellectual property practice, and he has written extensively and taught CLE courses on issues of electronic discovery and document management for large organizations in the litigation context. He writes a regular technology law column for the New York Law Journal. Steve was recognized as an elite boutique trailblazer by the National Law Journal in 2019. Before resuming private practice, Steve served as general counsel and senior vice president for applications development of the Gryphon Group LLC, an internet company based in New York City. Steve began his career as a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where he worked on antitrust matters, bankruptcy cases, and telecommunications litigation. After graduating from CA in 1985, Steve received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1989 and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993. Steve lives in New York City with his wife, Elise, and their two sons.
Including Sunredi, 12 members of his immediate and extended family have attended Concord Academy. Sunredi brings to the board an intimate understanding of this institution that spans four decades, as well as almost as many years of experience in both corporate and private business. In 2006, Sunredi founded the Selaras Group, a privately held commercial real estate development company with a portfolio of office buildings and hotels in Jakarta and Bali, Indonesia; He has been the CEO from inception to date. Prior to this venture, Sunredi spent 12 years in investment banking, first at Morgan Stanley and later at HSBC. Sunredi earned a B.S. in Management Science from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Sunredi is an Indonesian citizen and is currently living in Jakarta with his wife, Debby Katharina Setiawan. They have two sons, Arick '15 and Aidan '20. In his free time, Sunredi enjoys scuba diving and fishing in any of the numerous incredible locations Indonesia has to offer.
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- P'25 - Co - Chair, Alum Annual Fund, Ex Officio
Tess is one of six siblings to attend CA. After graduating from the University of Vermont with a major in East Asian studies, she worked with international companies listed on the NYSE while pursuing a master's in international affairs at the New School. She and her husband, Christian, live in Nahant, Mass., with their children, Ever '25, Bo, and Bay. Tess is an avid tennis player, dog lover, and volunteer.
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- Associate Director of Admissions and Financial Aid
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- Co - Director of Community and Equity