“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”
“Use honest weights and measures, to enjoy a long life in the land of God.”
“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”
Michael is Managing Member of RHR Capital LLC a Private Equity and Real Estate investment firm he founded in 2006. RHR Capital LLC has investment interests in Private Equity focused on water and health sciences and in Real Estate focused on ranches and farms, commercial wind farm development, and distressed properties. Previously, Michael spent over 20 years on Wall Street at UBS and Salomon Brothers Inc. At UBS Michael was a Managing Director with responsibilities as the head of Equity Derivatives sales and trading responsible for risk management products, convertibles, futures, and program trading. Michael graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. In addition to the GLF Board, Michael serves on the Board of the UNC Institute for the Environment, and the Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich.
David is a Vice President at the Capital Group of Companies, a global, privately-owned investment organization that manages the American Funds family of mutual funds and institutional investments from around the world.
Previously, David spent over 20 years in the City of London and on Wall Street at UBS and Deutsche Bank. David was a Managing Director at both firms with responsibilities across their Equity groups including roles in sales, trading and equity capital markets.
David graduated from University College London with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Economic History. David and his wife, Sally, moved to Greenwich in 1999 and attend Stanwich Church where David has served on the board of trustees. They have four boys, aged 9 to 17 attending Brunswick school in Greenwich.
David serves as the Director of the Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative. He is also an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton. Prior to this, he was at Yale University for five years, where he served as the Executive Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. David’s signature course is, “Business Ethics: Succeeding without Selling Your Soul.”
David brings an unusual “bilingual” perspective to the academic and business world. Before receiving his Ph.D. in ethics, he spent 16 years in senior positions in international business and finance, spending eight of those years overseas.
Mr. Murphy spent most of his managing consulting career developing and implementing methodologies for leadership, organizational development, high performance cross-functional teams and accountability management. He was a founder and President of ODI International, a management consulting firm with global partnerships. His high-impact consulting services focused on achieving superior organizational performance through people public and private sectors , and his company was named to INC Magazine’s List of Fastest Growing Companies in the US. He lived in Asia for three years, while building his consultancy throughout the region, including Europe and the Middle East. Prior to management consulting, Mr. Murphy held executive positions with CBS, Texaco and Control Data. He has served on numerous boards of directors and is a founding member of the Instructional Systems Association (ISA). He is published in many business journals and has presented at The Conference Board, European Foundation For Management Development (EFMD), Linkage, IIRA, The Forum, ASTD and other associations and conferences. Mr. Murphy received his BA degree in English Literature with a Minor in Science from Windham College. He and his wife Wendy reside in Greenwich, CT and summer on Cape Cod, MA.
Jim is a Director at Deutsche Bank Alex.Brown in the Greenwich, CT. He has served as Regional Executive and Client Advisor. He focuses servicing the needs of family offices and high net worth individuals in addition to working with middle market institutions.
Previously, Jim worked at Bank of America Securities in their Private Client division.having joined Montgomery Securities in 1997. He received his MBA from the Fordham University Graduate School of Business with a double concentration in Finance and Marketing. Jim received his B.A. in Economics and Fine Arts from St. Lawrence University in 1991.
Jim is the President of the Staunton Farm Foundation which is dedicated to improving the lives of people who live with mental illness and or substance use disorders. The foundation works to enhance behavior health treatment and support by advancing best practices through grant making to nonprofit organizations in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
He is also a board member of Project YESS (Young Executives Servicing Schools) with the Inner City Scholarship Fund in the Archdiocese of New York. YESS offers grants to inner-city elementary schools in need of capital improvements and repairs. He and his wife Alison reside in Greenwich with their five boys who attend the Greenwich Country Day School. They are members of St. Michael’s Parish.
U.S. Marine Corps Reserves 1964 through 1970; honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant. Thirty-seven years in the executive search business; 15 years with Russell Reynolds Associates(in New York, Houston, and Los Angeles); and own firm since 1986, currently Managing Partner of Higdon Partners LLC. Activities/commitments include: Past President of Andover Alumni Association, and former Trustee; member of the Board of the Yale Football Association (and Past President); Co-Founder of the Ivy Football Association; recently joined Board of Christian Herald Association (Bowery Mission in New York City); Board Member of LifeSpring Network. Member of Stanwich Congregational Church since 1985; Past Trustee (twice); former Senior Deacon; three-terms as Moderator and Chairman of the Capital Campaign.
Jerry is a Global Managing Partner at Deloitte, the largest professional services firm in the world. In his 39 years there, including 30 years as a partner, he has held a wide range of leadership roles, including worldwide oversight of the firm’s four core businesses (Audit & Enterprise Risk, Consulting, Financial Advisory, and Tax Services). He has led the development and execution of key global strategies and has worked with Deloitte’s Global Business Leaders to formulate and carry through action plans for enhancing the organization’s capabilities in key countries. Jerry also served as Global Managing Director of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and as Vice-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for Cross-Border Investment (DCCBI), whose objective is to secure marketplace and thought-leadership in areas of relevance to cross-border investors. Jerry is on the Board of AmeriCares and the University of Cincinnati Foundation. He holds a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Cincinnati (1972) and is a 2005 recipient of the prestigious Carl H. Lindner Award for Outstanding Business Achievement from UC’s College of Business.
Holly is a Senior Client Executive with Sirius Computer Solutions, a nationally recognized technology solution provider with a certified team of sales and technical professionals who have the skills, product knowledge and commitment to help clients develop and implement the right solutions to solve their business needs.
Holly has 14 years experience and has previously worked in New York City for IBM and Vicom Computer Solutions. Holly has been a consistent top sales producer at the three firms with responsibilities across their New York City Metro clients.
Holly graduated from University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. Holly moved to Greenwich in 2001 and attends Stanwich Church with her three boys, aged 1 to 5 years old.
Brad is managing director of Prudential Brad Hvolbeck Real Estate. A firm with roots back to 1928. Brad is a recognized leader in Greenwich Real Estate since 1968. He has been on the Board of Directors of the Greenwich Association of Realtors for over thirty years and was elected President for seven terms. He also was Vice President of the Connecticut Association of Realtors. Brad graduated from Nichols College and has attained the highest professional designations in residential real estate, including CRB, CRS and GRI. Brad is an emeritus board member of Eagle Hill School after serving twenty-five years on the board, six as Chairman. Brad is a former Board Member of Boys Scouts of America, Greenwich Council; Greenwich Health Association; Greenwich Chamber of Commerce; PNC CT Board of Advisors. Brad is a fourth generation Greenwich resident, is married to Marijane and has three sons. He is a member of Trinity Church.
Rebecca George is currently Managing Director, Westfield Capital Corporation, a Greenwich based private equity firm. Rebecca worked for almost a decade with Merrill Lynch in London where she was Vice President, Institutional Equity Sales. She has also served in senior business development roles with MasterCard International and AT&T. Rebecca graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to the GLF Board, Rebecca currently serves as Co-Senior Trustee, Stanwich Congregational Church and as a Board member for the Greenwich Center for Hope and Renewal.
Ann Richardson Knox is a Partner in the New York office of Haynes and Boone, LLP an international corporate law firm. Ann has over 13 years of experience advising major financial institutions and private equity and hedge funds in complex corporate financings. She concentrates her practice in the representation of borrowers and lenders in secured and unsecured lending and finance transactions, including syndicated financings, portfolio leveraging transactions, acquisition financings and workouts.
Ann is also a board member of the Cornell Club of Fairfield county as well as the Columbia Law School Alumnae Association.
Ann graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations and received her JD from Columbia University School of Law. Ann, her husband and daughter attend Stanwich Church.
Mike is the Co-Founder/Managing Partner of Consigliere Brand Capital a marketing-driven investment company based in New York CIty. Consigliere is a unique group of business athletes that leverage marketing and brand management principles to help established companies such as Under Armour and GNC and start-ups such as BirchBox and STELLAService grow faster and more profitably.
Previously, he spent 18 years in the world of Madison Avenue, the last 12 at Deutsch Inc. As Partner, Chief Corporate Strategy Officer, he oversaw business development, corporate strategy, public relations and agency brand development as well as relationships with brands ranging from the Fortune 500 to upstarts closing in on them.
John Compton is chief executive officer of PepsiCo Americas Foods. PepsiCo owns the world’s largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands, including 19 different product lines, each of which generates more than $1 billion in annual retail sales each. PepsiCo’s main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, and Pepsi Cola – also make hundreds of other enjoyable and wholesome foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of approximately $60 billion, PepsiCo employs nearly 300,000 people worldwide.
Compton assumed this role in November 2007, and is responsible for overseeing PepsiCo Americas Foods (PAF), which has a food and snack portfolio including Frito-Lay North America, Quaker Foods and all of our PepsiCo’s Latin American food businesses including Sabritas and the Gamesa business in Mexico. PAF, comprised of 130,000 associates, reported $22 billion in revenues in 2010 making it the largest sector of PepsiCo’s four business units. In addition, Compton has responsibility for PepsiCo’s Power of One Retail Sales teams.
Compton joined PepsiCo in 1983, and has held a variety of positions. He was most recently chief executive officer, PepsiCo North America and, prior, served as president and chief executive officer, Quaker Tropicana Gatorade. He also worked in Frito-Lay for 22 years in various sales, marketing, operations and general management assignments, including vice chairman and president of Frito-Lay’s North American Salty Snacks Division, chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Sales. Compton served on the Board of Directors of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group prior to its merger with PepsiCo in 2010.
Compton is based in Purchase, N.Y.
Education:
Bachelor of Science, (Finance), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.
Affiliations, Appointments and Awards:
Board member, First Horizon National Corporation
Executive council member, Conservation International
Executive sponsor, PepsiCo Ethnic Advisory Boards and the North American Women’s Inclusion Networks
Award winner, University of Tennessee, Distinguished Alumni (2011)
Mr. Gregory is Vice Chairman of Cerberus Capital Management; L.P. Mr. Gregory’s professional expertise includes Corporate Governance and Ethical Business Practices, mergers and acquisitions, and tax policy. He has served successfully in numerous leadership roles as chairman of the board, CEO, merchant banker and director of public, private and non profit corporations. As a corporate director of New York Stock Exchange member companies, he has served as the chairman of audit, governance, and compensation committees for a number of New York Stock Exchange member companies. He has also served as chairman of Special Independent Directors Committees for NYSE member companies. As an advisor to clients, he has coordinated multiple law firms in complex securities and tax litigation matters; has supervised special fraud and securities investigations; and advised on risk management and director & officer liability issues.
Mr. Gregory retired as Chairman of the Board after completing 24 years with Touche Ross & Co. (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu). He led global teams in a wide range of industries and countries while servicing the firm’s 100 largest clients. Mr. Gregory founded Gregory & Hoenemeyer, Inc., a merchant banking and LBO firm with investments including Banking, Real Estate, Marketing and Advertising Services, and Financial Advisory Services. He was also one of the founders of DoubleClick, Inc.
Public service roles included governmental appointments as Executive Co-Chairman of the United States Privatization Council, and U.S. Trade Representative’s Advisory Committee on International Trade in Services. He currently serves as Chairman of the Remington Outdoor Foundation, Chairman Emeritus of the National Forest Foundation in Washington, D.C., Director Emeritus of The National Board of Directors of Junior Achievement and was Director of the LPGA. He was named “Businessman of the Year” by the Big Brothers of America and is an active member of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Advisory Board.
Mr. Gregory graduated with distinction from the University of Nebraska in 1964, where he was later awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, as well as The Builder Award, the University’s highest non-academic recognition. He has completed advanced management courses at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business, at New York University, and attended the Air Force War College.
An avid outdoorsman, Mr. Gregory’s special interests include golf, wildlife habitat management, skiing, sporting clays, fly-fishing and Labradors.
Mr. Gregory, his wife Karen, and family reside in Greenwich, Connecticut and Buffalo, Wyoming.
Kay is a Regional Sales Manager for GDF SUEZ Energy Resources NA, one of the largest retail electric providers in the country. Kay has 14 years experience in sales and marketing and has worked previously for RR Donnelley, Enron and AT&T. Kay graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in Economics and also holds her MBA from the University of Houston. She is an active volunteer with the Junior League of Greenwich and serves on the Executive Board of Christ Church Nursery School. Kay, her husband and 2 daughters attend Christ Church Greenwich.
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