Richard Press

Biography

 Before retiring, Mr. Press was a Senior Vice President at Wellington Management from 1994 to 2006, where he started and built the firm’s insurance asset management practice. Prior to that, Mr. Press was a Senior Vice President of Stein Roe & Farnham from 1982 to 1994 and Scudder Stevens and Clark from 1964 to 1982. Mr. Press sits on various committees of the Controlled Risk Insurance Company and the Risk Management Foundation since 2006. He is Chairman of the Board of Anesthesia Associates of Massachusetts. Previously, he served as a board member and chairman of each of Transatlantic Holdings (NYSE: TRH) from August 2006 to March 2012 and Pomeroy IT Solutions (NASDAQ: PMRY) from July 2007 to November 2009. He served as a board member of the Housing Authority Insurance Group from 2008 to 2015. He was a founding member of the Board of Governors and the Advisory Board of the National Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center, Stony Brook University and Medical School, New York (2001 – 2013). Mr. Press earned a B.A. from Brown University in 1960; and after serving in the US Army, he received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1964.

Research Interest

Green adhesives, Green Chemistry, Sustainability, renewable resources, biomass, biofuel, Green Engineering , green industrial applications, green investments