Around the Table
Exeter Welcomes New Trustees
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The Exeter Bulletin
FALL 2013
he Academy welcomed new trustees David Goel ’89 and Kerry Landreth Reed ’91 during the Trustees’ fall meeting in October. Like so many who have the opportunity to experience Exeter, they’ve been shaped by their time here in profound ways. “It is so hard for me to know whether the professors who instilled in me a lifelong love of learning would ever realize how much I would come to appreciate their efforts,” says Goel. “I suppose it’s an unfortunate fact that our professors give us our most precious gifts when we are too young to appreciate them. As a trustee, I feel like I finally have my chance to start making up for that.” It’s a sentiment echoed by Landreth Reed. “Tom Hassan was my college adviser and Jack Herney interviewed me for Admissions. These two people were invaluable to my experience at Exeter, and if there’s anything I can do to support the next generation of people who are going to change the world, I want to do it in partnership with them.” A cum laude graduate of Exeter, Goel lived in Wentworth Hall and was a member of the debate team. After Exeter, Goel attended Harvard University, earning magna cum laude honors in 1993 with an A.B. in government. After college, Goel began his career as a financial analyst in the technology investment banking division of Morgan Stanley & Co. before moving to General Atlantic Partners and Tiger Management. In 1999, he started his own company, Matrix Capital Management. Goel’s volunteerism with the Academy includes serving on both the Edward S. Harkness Society and the Leadership Committee of The Exeter Initiatives campaign. He is also currently involved in the school’s Global Initiatives program and has been an adjunct member of the Investment Committee since 2003. A recipient of financial aid during his years at PEA, Goel considers his enrollment as “not just an opportunity to better myself, but a gift I was given. It impressed upon me the value of delivering scarce resources to where they can be most useful. I have spent my professional life in the area of understanding capital allocation—achieving the optimal return on capital—and I see my job as trustee in part a charge to bring that skill set…back to the school.” Goel is a trustee of The Meadowbrook School in Weston, MA, and of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He is vice chairman of Boston’s Citi Performing Arts Center and a former director of Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Goel and his wife, Stacey, were married in 2000. They live in Weston, MA, with their two children, Elizabeth-Grace, 8, and Noah, 5. A managing director at Goldman Sachs, Kerry Landreth Reed says, “My experience at the Harkness table has had a direct and lasting impact on my career every day.” Landreth Reed, then a Londoner, entered Exeter as a lower and lived in Hoyt Hall. She loved her time on the junior varsity field hockey and tennis teams. She also sang a cappella with the PEADQUACS and was an editor of The Exonian. A 1995 graduate from Stanford University with a B.A. in history, she says the history classes at Stanford were only a close second to those taught by PEA history instructors Jack Herney and Steve Smith. Landreth Reed joined Goldman Sachs in Los Angeles immediately after Stanford, worked in Hong Kong, and is now based in San Francisco running the Equity Sales desk and overseeing West Coast hedge funds and mutual funds. Currently president of her PEA class, she has been active in fundraising for Exeter and chaired several of her class’s reunion committees. She also heads the Leadership Council for The Nature Conservancy of California and is active with Tipping Point, an organization working to eliminate poverty in the Bay Area, and with the UCSF’s Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. Landreth Reed married fellow Exonian Creighton Reed ’90 in 2001.They live in San Francisco with their two children, Will, 8, and Bebe, 5.