Humanitarian Honoree

Pam Farr

Pam Farr has been a Red Cross volunteer for over 25 years and served in a variety of leadership roles. Currently she is a member of the National Philanthropic Board and co-chair of the Metro New York North PreResponder Building Campaign.

In 2008, CEO Gail McGovern appointed her National Chair of Volunteers. In that capacity Pam was a member of the Red Cross senior management team, representing over 700,000 volunteers at the national level and served in that role until 2012. Prior to that she was National Chair of Finance, the volunteer partner to the CFO from 2004–2008 working at Red Cross National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Locally, Pam chaired the Red Cross board in Greenwich from 2001–2004 during the time of the 9/11 response and has held many other leadership positions in the Greenwich chapter since 1996. Pam was actively involved with other national and state initiatives including the 9/11 Recovery Program Advisory Group, the Tristate Metropolitan New York Disaster Response Design Team and the Connecticut State Service Council. In 2011 she received the American Red Cross Harriman Award for Distinguished Volunteer Service, the highest honor given to a volunteer at the national level.

In addition to her work as a Red Cross volunteer, Pam devotes substantial time to other community service and philanthropic endeavors. Currently she is a member of the Yale School of Management (SOM) Board of Advisors. A Yale SOM graduate and active alumni volunteer, Pam served the Yale Alumni Association (YAA) Board of Governors as a member; the Yale SOMAA (School of Management Alumni Association) as member, then president; and as co-president of the New York Metropolitan Chapter of SOMAA. Pam is currently a member of the board of directors at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, California and member of the Executive, Finance, Investment (chair), Strategic Planning and Nominating committees along with being President of Theatre Forward, a New York based organization representing 19 regional non-profit theatres across the country. She has been a member of the National Dance Institute Board of Directors in New York City serving as board chair for eight years; the Washington Performing Arts Society Board of Directors, Washington, D.C.; the American Lung Association’s President’s Council; and the Board of Trustees of the Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Greenwich, Connecticut.

In her professional life, Pam has been a partner in Muirhead Holdings, a private equity firm in Greenwich, Connecticut and served as Chairman of Amerigives, a multimillion-dollar philanthropic outsourcing business. Her background includes ten years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where she served a variety of Fortune 500 companies. As an entrepreneur, she founded and developed two businesses: Banyan Homes, a real estate development, design and construction firm, and Best & Company, a manufacturer and retailer of children’s clothing and accessories. Pam was also a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco based Dresdner RCM Global and Capital Funds.

She holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.