NEW BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBERS

John Esposito P’20,’22,’25 is managing director and global head of the financial institutions group at Morgan Stanley, where he has served in leadership roles for nearly two decades. Before joining Morgan Stanley, he spent 10 years working for Merrill Lynch in that firm’s financial institutions group.

Esposito earned a B.S. in business administration and management from Boston College and an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He and his wife, Danielle, live in Greenwich, Conn., with their four children: John (University of Notre Dame), Matthew ’20 (Boston College), Will ’22 (University of Notre Dame), and Sofia ’25.

Hillary Beard Schafer P’25,’27 serves as CEO of Multiplying Good, founded as the Jefferson Awards for Public Service by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in 1972. The organization is one of the largest multipliers of public service in America, grounded in the belief that leaning in to help someone else unleashes the power of the individual. Schafer previously led NY Institutional Equity Sales for Citigroup and UBS and served as executive director of Economic Security 2000, fighting to save and remodel social security.

After graduating from Hotchkiss, Schafer earned a B.A. in English and art history from Middlebury College and an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia Business School. She lives in New York City with her husband, Mark Shafir, daughters Stella Schafer ’25 and Charley, and son Samuel Schafer ’27. Last year, the couple graciously hosted members of the Berkshire community at their home for a leadership briefing event.

Tom Steiner P’10,’12,’12 returns to the board following previous service as a trustee, membership on the Finance Committee, and ongoing work on the Endowment Committee. Steiner is the managing partner of Baldwin Bell Green. An active consultant for 30 years, he primarily focused on managing and directing strategy, organization, operations, and information technology studies for financial institutions, manufacturing, technology, and telecommunications firms. He is the co-author of two books, “Technology in Banking: Creating Value and Destroying Profits” and “The Banking Revolution: Salvation or Slaughter.”

A graduate of Dartmouth College and member of Phi Beta Kappa, Steiner also holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He and his wife, Maureen, reside in Longboat Key, Fla., as well as Egremont, Mass., and are parents to Berkshire alumni Lizzy ’10 (Wesleyan), James ’12 (Columbia), and Matt ’12 (Dartmouth).

Welcome New Advisory Board Co-Chairs

Tracy Wenzell Davlin ‘86 and Kit Landry ‘10 have been named Berkshire’s next Advisory Board cochairs, succeeding Allison Letourneau ‘07 and David Rondeau ‘78. Davlin and Landry will continue to develop the board’s mission of fostering alumni connections through regional engagement opportunities.

Davlin has served as the Boston region ambassador since 2021. She lives in Massachusetts, where she devotes her time to volunteer positions on PTO boards, the Garden Club, and the St. George’s School Parent Committee. Previously, she was assistant vice president of the Institutional Equity Syndicate desk at Lehman Brothers in New York.

A member of the Advisory Board since 2015, Landry has served as the Denver region ambassador since 2020. He currently works at OliverBuchananGroup (OBG), where he focuses on existing development projects while assisting on analysis of potential new deals. Prior to OBG, he was director of real estate at RPM Living.