The New Canaan Men’s Club, including President Roger Williams, and vice presidents Keith Richey and Jim Carty, were recently elected to office at the organization’s annual meeting at the Woodway Country Club in Darien, Conn.
Williams, Richey and Carty will hold their new office for a period of one year.
Elected as directors, for three-year terms, were Peter Eldridge, and Nick Yanicelli.
Williams, and his wife Paula have lived in New Canaan, Conn., for the past 24 years. Their son, Fred, attended New Canaan Public Schools, graduated from Colgate University, lives in New York City, and is now employed as a private equity associate for a large high-net-worth family office.
After 20 years, Roger recently retired from Segal Marco (formally Rogerscasey) investment advisers, where he was a partner, and senior consultant, helping clients including Citigroup, DuPont, Honeywell, Delta, Mastercard and several local hospitals manage their pension fund assets, and their 401(k) plans. Prior to Segal Marco, he either managed, or helped manage the pension assets at the Olin Corporation, GTE Investment Management, and Stauffer Chemical. While employed at GTE Investment Management he was elected president of Pension Group East, a trade organization of pension plan sponsors.
Williams is currently an adjunct professor at the Jack Welch College of Business at Sacred Heart University. He received his undergraduate degree from Bryant University, his MBA from Pace University, and is a CFA, and CAIA charter holder. His interests, and hobbies include Habitat for Humanity, offering career advice to students, woodworking, brewing beer with his son, bike riding and walking around town.
Richey retired a year ago after a career as a corporate lawyer specializing in international tax planning, and in that capacity worked for ExxonMobil, Citibank, Xerox, ITT, Xylem and Harman International. He has a bachelor’s degree from USC, a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin and an LLM in Tax Law from NYU.
Richey, and his wife Marina have lived in New Canaan for the past 28 years. He has been active in town, as chairman of the Parking Commission, former president of the Exchange Club of New Canaan, and the New Canaan Dance Club, chief of the Iroquois tribe of the former Indian Guides and Princesses at the New Canaan YMCA’s adventure guides program, co-organizer of the annual Rich-Mich Softball Game, a member of the Gridiron Club of New Canaan, and the Poinsettia Club. He presides over the Westchester County, N.Y. / Connecticut Chapter of the International Fiscal Association. Keith, and Marina have a son, and a daughter, Alexander, and Veronica, both products of New Canaan schools.
Carty was born in the greater Boston area, where he attended private secondary schools. He then attended the College of the Holy Cross, studied custom unions at the London School of Economics, where he conducted research in Sene-Gambia, West Africa, when Gambia became a republic within the United Kingdom. He received a graduate scholarship to The New School in New York City for political economics, then was employed by Drexel Hamilton. He, and his wife Sarah Ellen have been New Canaan residents for 40 years, and have four children, and nine grandchildren.
Peter Eldridge, and his wife, Debbie, moved to New Canaan in 1985. They have been married 48 years, and have three children, all of whom were raised in New Canaan, and attended the town’s public schools. Eldridge joined the New Canaan Men’s Club in 2017, and has become an avid member of the paddle tennis group. After college, Eldridge taught in a private school for several years before attending law school. He was in private practice until 1985 when he switched to a widely varied corporate legal career with Chemical Bank, Chase and JP Morgan, as well as Prudential Financial until his retirement in 2016.
Eldridge has served on the board of directors of St. Christopher Ottilie, a social service agency based on Long Island, N.Y., was president of The Lake Club, and served on the New Canaan Parks and Recreation Commission, and New Canaan Land Use Conservation Open Space committee. He, and his wife Debbie enjoy sailing when they are not having fun with their three grandchildren.
Nick Yanicelli, former president of the Men’s Club, and president of Malta Justice Initiative, is a retired corporate sales, and marketing executive, having worked for investment banks in New York City, and Houston for 30 years. He currently serves on the board of the Norwalk Hospital Whittington Cancer Center Institutional Review Board, the State Board of the Home Builders Association of Connecticut and the Fairfield County Board of the Home Builders and Remodelers Association.
He is one of a group of professionals from the fields of law, academia, business, religion and corrections who took a unique approach to the problem of mass incarceration in Connecticut, and the United States, and co-wrote the book titled, “The Justice Imperative – How Hyper-Incarceration Has Hijacked the American Dream.”
The New Canaan Men’s Club has openings for new members 55, and older. Anyone interested is invited to be a guest at the meeting. For more information, contact Frank Haines at 203-972-0327, or visit NewCanaanMensClub.org.
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