AW A R D S ALUMNI LEADERSHIP
Tor Peterson ’82 Director of the Coal and Coke Commodity Department at Glencore
Gretchen Schwabe Wilcox ’77 President, CEO and founder of G.S. Wilcox & Company
Tor began his career with a six-year stint as a commodities marketer at Phibro-Salomon. In 1992, he joined Swiss commodities trading giant Glencore, and in 2002 became the director of the Coal and Coke Commodity Department.
Gretchen is the president, CEO, and founder of G.S. Wilcox & Company, the first female-established commercial real estate mortgage banking company in the United States. The company is one of the top independently owned mortgage banking firms in the country.
With expertise in marketing and coal assets, Tor oversees the global marketing business and industrial assets of the department, including strategy and operations. In May 2011, Tor and Glencore made history when the world’s largest commodity trading company made its Initial Public Offering (IPO) and transitioned from a privately owned to publicly traded company.
In 2005, Gretchen was named among the “Top 50 Women in Business” by NJ Biz, and was among the “Women of Influence” by Real Estate Forum. In 2011, Gretchen was the recipient of a Pillar Award from the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties.
Following his two years at Suffield, Tor went on to attend Duke University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and French in 1986.
A graduate of Babson College with a double major in finance and quantitative methods, Gretchen is involved with numerous professional and philanthropic associations and serves on the Board of Directors for the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce.
TOP ROW Charlie Cahn, Tor Peterson ’82, Gretchen Schwabe Wilcox ’77, Paul Sullivan ’58, Rick Wahle ’73; Owen Hern ’15, Margaret Figueroa Hern ’82, Tor Peterson ’82. BOTTOM ROW Rick Wahle ’73.
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