New Trustees and Board of Trustees

Amy Peck (Parent, 4th Grade)

Amy Peck is the Chief Culture Officer at CIVANA, a new concept in wellness resorts & spas. The first location, nestled in the Arizona Sonoran Desert, just opened in mid-September. Amy also sits on the board of UrbanStems.

Obsessed with helping make organizations better, Amy is a tenacious problem-solver and motivating communicator who is deeply invested in Geoffrey, Mickey, Amy and Fisher making companies successful—and believes that taking care of employees is an integral part of success. Prior to CIVANA, Amy spent several years working with companies to help build, grow and maintain internal and external culture and community, as well as improve customer experience, training, hiring and communications.

With a passion for hospitality, Amy was the first employee at SoulCycle. For more than a decade, she helped build SoulCycle from a start-up with a single NYC studio to one of the country’s leading boutique fitness companies with almost 100 studios and 25,000 riders a day. Amy worked in virtually every department in the company before becoming Chief Culture Officer.

Before joining SoulCycle, Amy worked at Condé Nast for almost ten years in public relations at GLAMOUR and domino magazines, where she received several awards and accolades. She began her career at NBC in New York City.

Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Amy received her BA in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband, Geoffrey and their two sons, Mickey age 9.5 and Fisher age 3.5, and welcomes you to come try CIVANA any time you’re ready!

Chris Jones P’09

After graduating from Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Selwyn College, Chris spent 24 years in the advertising industry during which time he became the worldwide Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of J. Walter Thompson Co., one of the world’s biggest international advertising groups. He was the youngest person and first Sara Everett, Gus and Chris Jones

non-American to hold this position in the company’s 140-year history. In 2001, after a serious illness, Chris retired from the advertising business. He left New York City in 2002 and returned to live in England.

Based in the United Kingdom in the past decade, Chris has developed an extensive range of business and not-for-profit interests around the world.

In financial services, he has been an advisor to the Partner Board at Motion Equity Partners, a pan-European private equity firm based in Paris. He was a non-executive director of Central Trust PLC from 2008-2011. He was the Non-Executive Chairman of the Richmond Group from 2012-2015. He is the Chairman of Results International Group, a global M&A advisory house specializing in marketing services, healthcare and technology.

In healthcare, he is a member of the Board of Becton, Dickinson and Company, a $68 billion listed company which is a world leader in the manufacture of medical devices, diagnostic equipment, and bio-science technology. He is a member of the Executive Committee of that Board, Chair of the Nominations and Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation and Management Development Committee. He also served for seven years on the Audit Committee. He was the Senior Independent Director of Xenogen Corporation of Alameda, California from 2001 through its flotation in 2004 until its acquisition by Caliper Corporation in 2006. He was Chairman of the Pavilion Clinic, a joint venture between BMI and Global Health 2009-2015 and was an advisor to the Oxford Musculo- Skeletal Clinic.

In technology, he was Chairman of the Board of Freedom Holdings which owns one of the largest independent digital marketing companies in Europe from 2008 until its sale in 2015. He was advisory board member and investor at Webs Inc. which was acquired by Vistaprint NV in 2012.

He is an advisor to Nardello & Co., a leading United States based investigative firm specializing in due diligence, asset recovery, litigation support and FCPA/Bribery Act matters. He was a director of Commarco, Germany’s leading independent marketing services firm from 2003 until its sale to WPP in 2011. He is Chairman of Cello Health PLC, an AIM-listed marketing services company. He also served as a Director of

De Beers Diamond Jewelry, the joint venture between De Beers and LVMH from its formation in 2001 until 2009. He was a member of the Advisory Board at Marakon Associates, a management consultancy.

In not-for-profit, he is a Trustee/Visitor of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, Chair of the Advisory Board at the University Library at Cambridge and an ex-officio member of the Library Syndics. He is a member of the Health Advisory Board at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore. He is also a Trustee and Treasurer of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a Trustee of the Lasker Foundation in New York City. He is a member of the Board of the Pew Charitable Trusts based in Philadelphia and Washington D.C., famed for its extensive global work in environmental conservation, public health, government performance and public attitude and opinion research.

He is a governor and immediate past Chairman of the Dragon School, Oxford. He is Chairman of Governors at St. Edward’s School, Oxford. He led the formation of The Blackbird Academy Trust, an academy with responsibility for three primary schools with 1,250 pupils on the Leys Estate, a part of East Oxford with extensive social problems. He was Chair of the Academy Board for five years until its merger with United Learning.

Educator Colm MacMahon, Head of School, Rippowam Cisqua School, Bedford, NY

Colm has been the Head of School at Ripposam Cisqua in Bedford, NY since 2015. Founded in 1917, Rippowam Cisqua is a co-ed pre-K through 9th grade school with 350 students. Recently, in 2018, the School finished the construction on their Upper School Campus which encompassed major additions including a new main entry, media center, dining hall, Neve, Kara, Colm and Ciaran

classroom addition, renovated science labs and art classrooms and an innovation lab that opened into a courtyard amphitheater.

In November 2019, the Board voted to unite the two campuses for the start if the 2020-21 school year at 439 Canitoe Street in Bedford. As part of the unification of its two campuses, in September 2020, the School will open a new Early Childhood Center which will house Junior pre-K and Senior pre-K students.

Colm grew up in New York City and attended St. David’s School and Loyola School. He is a 1997 graduate of College of the Holy Cross and received a M.A. from Columbia Teacher’s College in 2005. Prior to his post at Rippowam Cisqua, Colm was Assistant Head at School of the Holy Child, Admissions Director at Berkeley Carroll School, and a teacher at Marymount School.

Colm’s nephew, Noel Mac Mahon, graduated from Allen- Stevenson in June 2020 and received the Robby Zuckert ’84 Honor which recognizes a boy exemplifying high moral character, possessing a strong sense of right and wrong, and encouraging loyalty, authenticity, kindness, empathy, courage, determination and thoughtfulness among his classmates at The Allen-Stevenson School.

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