Messages from the President

Report from the President: May 5, 2008

New Members of the Board of Trustees

George Alex P'17
George Alex was elected to the Board of Trustees in September 2007. George, his wife Marlena, and their two daughters, Virginia '17 and Isabel, live in Cohasset, Massachusetts. George is executive vice president and chief financial officer of NextWave Wireless LLC, which he joined in 2001 as the senior vice president of finance.  NextWave builds and operates next-generation wireless networks designed to provide a broad spectrum of wireless broadband services.

After attending Rivers School, George earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard and received his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. George is active member of the Milton Academy parent community and worked with the parent committee that secured pledges to sustain the K–12 school structure in May 2007.

David Abrams P'08,'10
David Abrams was elected as a member of the Board of Trustees in January 2008.  David and his wife Amy have two children at Milton—Daniel '08 and Michael '10—and they live in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

David is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and is managing partner of Abrams Capital, a privately held investment partnership he founded in 1999. David is a trustee of the Berklee School of Music and has served at Shady Hill School (Board of Overseers, Investment Committee), and on the University of Pennsylvania Fund Executive Board.

David and Amy are active members of the Head of School's Council and are providing leadership service and support as volunteers to the Parents' Annual Fund, Class I 2008 Gift, and to the capital initiatives of the School.