introducing our new trustees Jeremy Crigler ’79 Jeremy graduated from Cardigan Mountain School in 1979 before enrolling at Milton Academy. He is a 1988 graduate of Tulane’s A.B. Freeman School of Business, where he earned an undergraduate degree in finance. Jeremy then earned his MBA at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Today, Jeremy serves as chief investment officer for Tulane University, responsible for managing the school’s $1 billion endowment. Prior to joining Tulane, Jeremy served as senior investment officer for Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where he was part of a team responsible for developing and implementing investment policies and performance measures for the university’s $6 billion endowment. He also managed a team responsible for investing $2.5 billion in public equity, hedge funds, and other assets for the university. Jeremy has extensive experience in money management. Prior to working for Cornell, he founded the investment consulting firm Trusten Capital Management in Durham, N.C., where he worked for seven years as a consultant and portfolio manager. Before Trusten, he served as investment director of public equity for Duke Management Company, where he was responsible for investing Duke University’s endowment and other assets.
David J. Martinelli P’13 David lives in Haverford, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Christine, and their three children. Their son Will is now in the eighth grade at Cardigan, having started with us as a 2010 Summer Session student and later enrolling in the seventh grade. The Martinellis have two other children: Will’s younger brother, Davis, who attends The Haverford School, and his sister, Elizabeth, who is a boarding student at Episcopal School. David is managing partner for Harvest Fund Investors. He earned his BS in finance/marketing from Syracuse University and an MBA in finance from the Stern School of Business at NYU. Previously, David held the offices of treasurer and senior vice president of corporate development for Buckeye Pipe Line Company in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
David is a trustee at The Haverford School, and he also serves on the boards of the Philadelphia Zoo and MyLeadershipboard. com, as well as the advisory board to Penn Liberty Bank. He is also active in The Steppingstone Foundation, the Academy of Music, Peter’s Place, Main Line Animal Rescue, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. David and Christine are both active in the greater Philadelphia area, providing leadership and volunteer support to health care and education organizations, as well as to various other concerns, including a local animal shelter from which they have adopted five dogs. In addition, Christine is a trustee at Oldfields School. At the Cardigan board meeting in October 2010, David shared his experiences as a trustee at The Haverford School, highlighting that school’s fundraising campaigns and lessons learned through the experience.
D. Bryan Ruez P’06 Bryan and his wife, Nancy, are the parents of Chris, a 2006 Cardigan graduate, and his older brother,William, who is now a graduate student at SMU. The Ruez family has their primary residence in Houston, Tex., where they have lived, off and on, for many years. The family spends their summers at their home in Chatham, Mass. Bryan is a managing director and the global co-leader of Alvarez & Marsal Forensic and Dispute Services. He joined Alvarez & Marsal in 2003 and led the firm’s overall global corporate development efforts, where he played a key role in the development and growth of the firm’s non-restructuring businesses. Prior to Alvarez & Marsal, Bryan spent 22 years at the accounting firm Arthur Andersen. Bryan earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration, with a focus in accounting, from Texas A&M University, and he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Bryan and Nancy have been very supportive of Cardigan in many ways over the years. In recent years, they have hosted Cardigan receptions both in Houston and on Cape Cod.
The Cardigan Board welcomed Mr. Crigler, Mr. Martinelli, and Mr. Ruez to its membership at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Cardigan Mountain School Corporation in October.
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