NEW MEMBERS

1 Sara Simmons Bartow ’98 Sara attended GCDS from Kindergarten through Grade 9 along with her four siblings Caroline ’00, Julia ’02, Nick ’04, and Cliff ’07. After GCDS, she graduated from Greenwich Academy in 2001 and Cornell University in 2005 where she played lacrosse and majored in American Studies. After working for a few years at ABC News, Sara spent time in Ghana, West Africa, and Buenos Aires, Argentina working as a teacher. Upon returning to New York City, she was a preschool teacher at the Episcopal School and received her master’s in Early Childhood Education at Hunter College. She now lives back in Greenwich with her husband, Philip, and their two children, Ford (GCDS Kindergarten) and Georgina, who goes to Putnam Indian Field School. Sara serves on the board of directors of REACH Prep, an educational access non-profit based in Fairfield County and on the Board of Trustees at Putnam Indian Field School.

2 Field Failing ’97 is the Founder and CEO of a healthy chicken-focused fast casual restaurant concept called Fields Good

Chicken. He started the restaurant in 2014 and it now has five locations in NYC. After GCDS, he went on to the Hotchkiss School and then to Cornell University where he received a BA in Chemistry in 2005. He later received his MBA from Cornell in 2012. Field lives in Greenwich with his wife, Christina, and their three sons, James (5), Henry (2.5), and Charlie (5 months). He enjoys skiing, golf, and cycling—and is an avid fan of the Rolling Stones.

3 Ashley Mendel Fox ’93 After graduating from GCDS, Ashley went to Deerfield Academy and Northwestern University. Ashley has spent the last 20 years in the jewelry business and eight years ago started her own company, Ashley Fox Collection. She currently resides in Greenwich and has three children who all attend GCDS—twins in Grade 6 and a daughter in Grade 5.

4 Doug Friedman ’03 Doug started at GCDS in Grade 2 when his family moved to Connecticut. After GCDS, he graduated from Brunswick in 2006 and then Washington and Lee University in 2010, with a BA in Economics and a BS in Business Administration. Doug began his career at Barclays Capital as an Analyst on the Consumer Mergers & Acquisitions team. Next, he worked at Bluestem Asset Management, an investment firm based in Charlottesville, VA. Since 2014, Doug has been at Luxor Capital Group, a NY-based global hedge fund, where he co-founded Lugard Road, a technology focused global hedge fund, in 2017.

5 Rachel Stockman Koven ’00 Rachel attended GCDS along with her sister, Victoria Stockman ’03. After GCDS, she graduated from Greenwich Academy and headed to Northwestern University to pursue a degree in journalism at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. After college, Rachel spent several years as an on-air reporter at WCBS (New York, NY), KPNX (Phoenix, AZ), and WGBA (Green Bay, WI). She took a break to attend Yale Law School but couldn’t leave her media career. She then worked at the ABC affiliate in Atlanta, GA, got married to a Southern man, and moved back up North. She is now President of Law&Crime, a company that streams and produces true crime content, and is the proud mom of Isabelle (GCDS Kindergarten) and Ben.