13DEC20_CC_Departments_Draft_12_CMS_Features_2018 12/13/2020 10:58 AM Page 38
Draft 12 (13DEC20)
founDerS pAth Cardigan Welcomes ree New Trustees Cardigan is humbled and honored to introduce
nationally. Prior to joining WtW, Mr. Roberts
the community to three individuals who have
served as the Midwest financial products leader
recently committed to serving on the School’s
for the Marsh Private Equity Mergers and
Board of Trustees.
Acquisitions Practice, focusing on transactional risk solutions and management liability insurance
lewis
tyler lewiS:
products such as Directors & Officers Liability and
In 2019, Tyler Lewis joined Kimball Union Academy
Errors & Omissions. In 2002, Mr. Roberts relocated
as head of school. He and his wife Renee, who is
to Chicago and helped build a mergers and acqui-
also a career educator and coach, live on campus
sition focused team, serving the Midwest private
with their two sons, Benjamin and Finnegan, and
equity community. Before his career in finance, Mr.
their daughter Hadley. Prior to his appointment at
Roberts spent five years teaching and coaching at
KuA, Mr. Lewis spent four years as the head of
independent boarding schools, including St.
school at Bishop’s College School, an international
George’s School in Rhode Island and Avon Old
boarding school in Quebec, Canada. Under his
Farms School in Connecticut. Mr. Roberts is serv-
leadership, the school implemented a strategic
ing on the Academic and Intellectual Life
plan and a comprehensive campus master plan,
Committee, the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
enrollment reached maximum capacity, and the
Committee, the Real Estate Committee, and the
annual fund nearly doubled. From 2006–15, Mr.
School Life Committee.
Lewis was the director of admission at Holderness
roberts
School in New Hampshire and oversaw the execu-
ChriStopher King ’79:
tion of recruitment, retention, and financial aid;
Christopher King ’79 has spent his 30+ year career
served on the finance committee of the board of
working with financial institutions, primarily in
trustees; and participated in two school strategic
mergers and acquisitions (M&A). While at
planning processes. At Cardigan, Mr. Lewis is serv-
Cardigan, Mr. King served as School Leader and
ing on the Admission and Marketing Committee
hockey captain; he continued his academic and
as well as the School Life Committee.
hockey careers at St. Paul’s School and Princeton University. Mr. King then went on to serve eight
king
Jeffrey robertS p’21:
years in the U.S. Army Reserve. After a brief time
Jeffrey Roberts is the parent of a current Cardigan
practicing M&A law, he became an investment
student, Jack Roberts ’21. He and his wife Michelle
banker with Credit Suisse and uBS, before moving
have two other children (ages 17 and eight) and
to American International Group (AiG). Most
live in Glencoe, IL. Mr. Roberts is an executive vice
recently, he served as a managing director for nine
president in the Willis Towers Watson (WtW)
years at AiG. Mr. King and his wife Victoria current-
Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. He is responsible
ly live in Greenwich Village, NY, with their
for merger and acquisition consulting, risk man-
college-aged daughter Willa. Mr. King is serving
agement consulting, and insurance solutions for
on the Finance Committee and the Investment
private equity clients along with their resultant
Committee. r
portfolio company relationships. Currently, Mr. Roberts covers more than 20 private equity funds
38
FounDerS pAth
Cardigan Mountain School Winter 2021 Cardigan Chronicle magazine.
