New trustees · Connecticut College News

Eight alumni have joined the Connecticut College Board of Trustees, including a Young Alumni Trustee from Class of 2021. The new trustees began serving on July 1.

The new trustees are:

Jessica Archibald ’95

Jessica Archibald is a Managing Director and a member of the Investment Committee at Top Tier Capital Partners in San Francisco. She is co-head of the fund team and is deeply involved in the company’s capital formation efforts. Archibald joined Top Tier’s predecessor, Paul Capital, in 2005. Prior to joining Top Tier, she was part of the investment team at Care Capital LLC, a venture capital firm specializing in biotechnology. Before that, she spent five years with Salomon Smith Barney.

Archibald is a West Coast board member of Team IMPACT, an organization that combats the emotional trauma and social isolation of children facing serious and chronic illnesses by helping them through a two-year therapeutic program that complements their medical treatments a college sports team.

Archibald studied abroad at Glasgow Caledonian University in the fall of her junior year and graduated in 1995 with majors in mathematics and economics. In 2001 she completed a business school semester abroad at the University of St. Gallen and in 2002 earned her MBA in finance from the Stern School of Business at NYU. She was a member of the Varsity Crew Team and was inducted into the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006. After graduation, she continued to row competitively through the New York Athletic Club, where she was a nine-time national champion, and in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Trials participated.

Lawrence “Nat” Damon ’93

Nat Damon is the founding director of Reach Academics, an organization that works closely with K-12 schools to strengthen relationships among students, teachers, staff, parents, and administrators to ensure that all members are successful. He also moderates the “Reach.Teach.Talk” podcast and is currently the interim middle school director at the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles. Damon previously served as the director of a number of independent schools in California. He was the assistant principal / principal at the John Thomas Dye School in Bel Air, CA; and founding the Academic Dean / Dean of Students at Sierra Canyon in Chatsworth, CA. As an English teacher for grades 6-11, he has held positions at Park School (Brookline, MA), Derby Academy (Hingham, MA), and Harvard-Westlake School (Bel Air, CA). He is the author of two books: “True Colors in My Ordinary World” (2020) and “Time to Teach: Time to Reach” (2018).

Damon is a member of the Board of Governors of Soho Parish Primary School in London and was recently elected to the board of directors of the Episcopal School of Los Angeles. He served on the board of directors of the Beacon School for Boys and Valley Charter Schools in North Hills, California, when he was chairman of the board for three years.

Damon graduated with a major in American Studies and Psychology in 1993 and received an MA in English Literature from Middlebury College in 2000.

Mark Fallon ’92

Since April 2020, Mark Fallon has been chairman and chief executive officer of APTIM, a portfolio company of Veritas Capital. APTIM specializes in engineering, program management, environment, energy efficiency, sustainability, resilience, disaster recovery, reliability of critical facilities, and solutions and services for emergency construction. Prior to joining APTIM, Fallon was President and CEO of Envirocon and Modern Machinery. Prior to that, he held various management positions at CH2M, including Board Member, President of Global Regions, Managing Director of Europe and President of Global Nuclear Business. Fallon began his career at the US Department of Energy, where he served as a senior advisor to the US Department of Energy.

Fallon was a director of the Denver Scholarship Foundation, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Export Import Bank of the United States, and a member of the Environmental Management Advisory Committee of the US Department of Energy.

Fallon graduated with a degree in government in 1992.

Alice Cell Phone ’70

Alice Handy is the founder, former president and CEO of Investure, an outsourced investment firm for colleges and foundations with $ 12 billion in assets under management. Prior to founding Investure, Handy spent 29 years with the University of Virginia, initially as an investment officer, later as treasurer, and finally as president of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company (UVIMCO). From 1988 to 1990 she was Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Handy began her career as a bond portfolio manager and assistant vice president with Travelers Insurance Company.

Handy is a board member of the American Friends of the National Gallery London and the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation. She also generously contributes her expertise to the investment committees of St. Jude’s Hospital, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the United Way of Greater Charlottesville, Sweet Briar College, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Handy studied economics at Connecticut College and graduated with a BA in 1970.

Sydney Lamb ’21 (YAT)

Sydney Lamb majored in American Studies and minor in Sociology and received dean’s or high honors every semester. She has received the Vera Snow Graduate Fellowship, the Class of 2003 Prize in American Studies, and the Robert Hampton Award, given to two seniors who have made greatest contributions to the college and community. In the summer of 2019, Lamb was an intern in Columbia University’s pre-college program in New York. There she assisted professors in courses for high school students and produced media and marketing content for the program. In addition, in the fall of 2019, Lamb studied abroad at University College London, where she studied American and ancient history.

Lamb served in all four academic years as a representative on the honorary council, most recently as chairman of the council, where she chaired the weekly meetings. Lamb was the creative director and co-president of Womxn’s Empowerment Initiative, produced and directed theater productions with over 100 participants, organized leadership committees, and raised funds and awareness for local women empowerment nonprofits.

Sarah A. Mudho ’98

Sarah Mudho has been General Counsel at Wellspring Capital Management, a private equity firm in New York, since 2015. She then became Chief Compliance Officer in 2017 and is a member of the company’s investment committee. Prior to joining Wellspring, Sarah was a corporate counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York. As a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Paul Weiss, Mudho worked on various overseas and domestic acquisitions and investments, divestments, joint ventures, recapitalizations and other transactions for U.S. and overseas clients operating in a variety of businesses, including steel , Manufacturing, defense, hospitality, health, sports and consumer goods industries.

Mudho graduated cum laude in International Relations in 1998 and received her JD from Columbia Law School in 2001. During her studies, she played on the college women’s basketball team for three seasons and attended Umoja every four years. Sarah’s brother Christopher also visited Conn as a member of the 2001 class.

Devon Danz Preston ’93

Since 2014 Devon Preston has worked as a court appointed special attorney at Marin CASA with children living in foster families. Her professional career has primarily focused on the environment and sustainable development. She has served as an environmental program officer with the Rhode Island Foundation, executive director of the Washington County Regional Planning Council, environmental compliance officer, and sustainability manager with the Presidio Trust and the National Audubon Society.

Preston is the vice chairman of the Insight Garden Program, an organization that provides a curriculum for prison inmates and re-entry assistance for people leaving prison. While studying at Conn, Preston volunteered at the York Correctional Institution for Women, which sparked a lifelong interest in and advocacy for prison policy reform. She is also a board member of Children for Change and a trained volunteer in support of domestic violence survivors.

Preston received her BA from Connecticut College in 1993 with a major in environmental studies and a minor in English and an MS in environmental policy from the University of Michigan School of the Environment in 1999. Devon’s sister April Danz also attended Connecticut College and graduated in 1996 .

Maarten Terry ’83

As a media manager, Maarten Terry has more than 30 years of experience in direct marketing and brand management in various categories such as telecommunications, books, magazines, coffee and tobacco. Terry is a founding partner of ConvergeDirect, a direct response media company that provides strategic solutions for media planning and buying, analytics and marketing services. Prior to ConvergeDirect, he was Vice President and Group Marketing Director at Time4Media, a division of Time, Inc., and Product Manager for Philip Morris and Kraft Foods.

Terry is a senior mentor for COOP Careers, an organization that helps people overcome underemployment by improving digital skills and connecting with their peers. He is a former board member of the United Way of New Canaan and a former board member and vice president of A Better Chance of New Canaan, a community-based organization focused on providing academically gifted minority students with a range of opportunities that may not be available in their own communities.

Terry was a sociology-based human relations major at Connecticut College. Initially, he received the Anna Lord Strauss Prize in honor of his volunteer work at the Community Resource Commission’s Afterschool Center, his role in coordinating on-campus relief efforts for the victims of a major fire in New London, and his work with a local youth to establish chapter of the NAACP. Before that he was a member of the board of directors of the alumni association.