Thomas Quinn is an investment adviser with over 30 years of experience in banking, investment management and commercial property. He is the former global head of Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) of UBS Wealth Management and Business Banking, a position he held from 2004 to 2009. Prior to joining UBS in April 2004, he founded and managed TS Quinn Associates, LLC, a real estate investment management firm. Before that, he spent 23 years at JP Morgan where he held various senior management positions. From 1994 to 2001, Tom was responsible for JP Morgan's proprietary private equity investments in the real estate sector. He previously had a broad range of assignments in corporate finance and investment banking, including positions in New York, Mexico City and London. Tom is a director of Alpha Investment Partners Limited, a real estate investment management firm in Singapore, a trustee of The Hotchkiss School and a former member of the National Real Estate Advisory Board of the Nature Conservancy. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (B.A.) and Middlebury College (M.A.).

Thaddeus Gray retired as a managing director at Abbott Capital Management, LLC, a New York-based investment advisor focused exclusively on private equity, in 2017. Thaddeus was chief investment officer and a member of Abbott’s executive committee. Prior to this, Thaddeus worked as syndicate manager/assistant vice president for Commerzbank Capital Markets Corporation and as an analyst in the Corporate Finance Department for Credit Commercial de France in Paris. He also serves on the board of the East Side Settlement House in New York. He served on the Sharon Association board and was co-chairman of the Security and Street Life Committee for Community Board 8 in Manhattan. He has served as a community member of the Berkshire Taconic Investment Committee since March 2013. Thaddeus, a native of Litchfield County, is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and New York University Graduate School of Business Administration. He resides with his family in Lakeville, Conn.

Liz Hilpman serves as president and chief investment officer of Barlow Partners, an investment advisory firm in New York City she joined in 2001. Prior to joining Barlow, Liz was a vice president of investments at Commonfund; an investment manager with Global Asset Management; an investment officer working in the endowment community at Dartmouth College; and the director of Alternative Manager Research at Dubin & Swieca. She is a frequent speaker at hedge fund conferences on the subjects of asset allocation, manager selection and monitoring. She has served on a number of nonprofit boards, including Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and the Cary Institute, and in leadership roles on the investment committees of several nonprofit organizations, including as chair of the investment committee of the Maine Community Foundation. She has served on the BTCF investment committee as a community member since 2013. She holds a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire and resides part-time with her husband in Norfolk, Conn.

Kelly Morgan is managing director at PRIO Wealth, formerly Seaward Management. Prior to joining Seaward in July 2008, Kelly spent 11 years with Putnam Investments in Boston. Initially, she was the lead portfolio manager on global growth retail and institutional portfolios, and then became head of global equity research prior to becoming chief investment officer for all retail and institutional U.S. large cap growth portfolios. Prior to Putnam, Kelly spent 10 years managing Global Growth Equity portfolios for Alliance Capital Management in New York and London. Before graduate school, she spent two years as an analyst with Morgan Stanley Asset Management. Kelly received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from Middlebury College (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude) in 1984. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1988.

Ann Goodbody retired from Citibank, N.A. in 2002, after spending 32 years there in various positions in the insurance and real estate divisions of corporate banking. In 1995, she became head of capital management for the holding company, Citicorp and its subsidiaries, and in that capacity had oversight for its capital adequacy, its debt and equity issues and its acquisitions and divestitures. She also became a member of the Market Risk Policy Committee, providing oversight for liquidity and market risk positions in North America. She was appointed an executive vice president in 1997 and became the chair of credit policy, responsible for the policies and procedures governing global corporate and consumer credit activities. Subsequent to the merger that created Citigroup, she became the head of credit risk management for Citibank in the 80 countries in the Emerging Markets where the bank had a presence. Ann graduated from Fordham University in 1968 with a B.S. in Economics. After a brief time on Wall Street, she joined Citibank, N.A., then named First National City Bank, and became part of the early cadre of women pursuing careers in banking and finance. She was the first woman to be appointed to the chief credit officer position of a major banking institution. She served on the board of Berkshire Taconic for nine years and is the immediate past chair of the committee.

Elizabeth Hewitt joined the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2015 as chief investment officer and senior vice president. She is responsible for managing the foundation’s endowment, including asset allocation strategy, fund manager selection, risk analysis, portfolio performance evaluation and liquidity management. Prior to joining the foundation, she was managing director of public investments at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where she selected and monitored investments with managers, helped set asset allocation policy and contributed to overall portfolio management. Earlier in her career, she was a senior vice president for Lazard Asset Management, a hedge fund analyst for The Torrey Funds and a wealth management associate for the U.S. Trust Corporation. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She was a member of the Board of Directors for The Madeira School, where she chaired the Investment Committee from 2010 to 2018. She has a residence in northeast Dutchess County.

Seth Masters is an angel investor, advisor and mentor for early-stage companies that apply enabling technologies to solve real problems. He retired from AB Bernstein in 2017, where he served for 27 years as a leader of asset management businesses. As the chief investment officer of Bernstein Private Wealth Management, he oversaw portfolios worth more than $80 billion for over 25,000 clients. His previous roles at the firm included chief investment officer of asset allocation, chief investment officer of defined contribution, chief investment officer of blend strategies, and chief investment officer of emerging markets. Among his other responsibilities, he served as the president of the Bernstein mutual funds and the Bernstein Trust company. Before joining Bernstein, he worked for five years as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. He sits on the board of the Columbia Land Conservancy. He previously served as a member of the board and the investment committee of the Wenner Gren Foundation, as well as Bennington College. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s degree in economics from Oxford University. He has a residence in Columbia County.

Daphne Richards serves as president and CIO of Ledge Harbor Management, a single-family office, as of its formation in September 2016. Previously Daphne worked at Bessemer Trust Company, New York, from 1999 to 2014, where she was a managing director, head of hedge fund investments and co-head of Bessemer’s $5 billion Alternative Investment Group. She was a member of the investment committees for Bessemer's private equity/venture capital and real estate/real assets programs, and she chaired the hedge fund investment committee. She also served as a member of Bessemer’s Investment Policy and Strategy Committee. Prior to Bessemer, Daphne held senior investment roles at Frank Russell Company, Union Bank of Switzerland and Credit Suisse.  Daphne is an independent director of Cartica Capital Management LLC and of Cohen and Steers Mutual Funds. Daphne is a member of the Northeast Dutchess Fund advisory committee. She holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and resides in Stanfordville, N.Y.