WELCOME
Welcome New Trustees T
his fall, Brimmer and May welcomes two new members to its Board of Trustees. As parents who have been actively engaged in the School community, they are excited to take on this important volunteer leadership role and serve the School.
Jon Grenzke P ’31
Jon Grenzke joined Bracebridge Capital, an absolute return, fixed income hedge fund, as a summer analyst before his senior year at Harvard University and continued there for nearly twenty years after graduation, becoming a Principal of the firm in 2002. As a portfolio manager, his focus was on developed-markets investments and structured products, including commercial mortgage-backed securities, consumer asset-backed securities, and other non-residential securitized product. In addition to being involved in risk management for the overall portfolio and the firm, he also oversaw the CTO and technology. He retired from Bracebridge in 2016, and now enjoys being able to continue to put his investing, analytical, and computation skills to work in other arenas.
He is currently President of the Board of Trustees at Eaglebrook School, the middle school he attended in western Massachusetts, and was previously Chair of the Finance Committee at Eaglebrook. He enjoys day hikes of 4,000 footers in the White Mountains, downhill skiing, and occasionally devoting a day or weekend to cooking with modernist techniques. His wife, Elizabeth Kensinger, is Chair of the Psychology Department at Boston College. They have a daughter, Juliet, in Grade 2 at Brimmer, who excitedly looks forward to each new day at school. The Board is excited to tap into Jon’s finance knowledge and Board experience at Eaglebrook and his appreciation for Brimmer. Welcome, Jon!
Chris Chou P ’29, ’33
Chris Chou and his wife Jessica came to the School as new parents in the fall of 2015 and immediately got involved with the School community. Amongst other volunteer positions, Chris and Jessica have been parent representatives, buddy families to incoming parents and students, and Admissions Open House tour guides. Chris is currently a Vice President at McCall & Almy, Inc., a full-service commercial real estate firm that provides strategic real estate advisory services to mostly institutions and nonprofits. A natural-born problem-solver, Chris possesses the natural ability to create order out of chaos. Chris believes that a good handle on the quantifiable aspects of a real estate engagement early on will help drive strategic decisions further down the line.
Chris has served as a strategic advisor and development project manager for many institutions, including secondary schools (BC High, BB&N, and Boston Renaissance Charter Public School), community centers (Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston and Dorchester), colleges (Harvard University, Northeastern University, Suffolk University, and Berklee College of Music), and healthcare institutions (Lahey Health, Maine Medical Center, and Partners Healthcare). When not working, Chris can be found doing what he loves most: doting on his wife and two kids. The entire family has been bitten by the travel bug and that means there is always the next trip on the horizon, at least under normal circumstances. Chris holds an M.B.A. from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and a B.S. from Boston University Questrom School of Business. The Board of Trustees is eager to tap into Chris’s experience with educational strategic and project management at other institutions as we navigate the action items from the new Strategic Priorities 2020 and Beyond. Brimmer Magazine
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