Groton Welcomes New Trustees

Groton School welcomes three new members to its Board of Trustees—Kun Deng P’20, ’24 of Princeton, New Jersey; Kevin M. Griffith ’80 of Chicago; and Allison Chin Hays ’03 of San Francisco. The new trustees bring career expertise important to a successful board, the uniquely helpful insights of alumni and parents, and a deep dedication to Groton. 

Mr. Deng, the new president of Groton’s Parents’ Association, is a managing director at Lazard Asset Management LLC; he currently serves on the board of directors at the Peking University Education Foundation and formerly was an advisory board member at the World Policy Institute. Mr. Deng holds master’s degrees from Peking University and Columbia University. He and his wife, Jen, are parents of a Groton graduate and a current student and have been Groton School Parent Fund volunteers since 2016.
 
Mr. Griffith is the founder and president of Glenmore Capital Group, a firm focused on investing in and growing lower middle market businesses. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor’s in economics from Yale University. A standout in boys crew at Groton, Mr. Griffith was inducted into Groton’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014.
 
Mrs. Hays is an executive director in the Private Funds Group at UBS Investment Bank. She earned an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and a bachelor of arts from Bowdoin College. Prior to UBS, she was a research analyst at Venesprie Capital and an investment banker at Cowen and Company.
 
In addition to the three new trustees, Grace Song Park '86, P'19, '21, former head of the Parents' Association, has ended her ex officio status but will continue her tenure on the board. The parent of three children, including two Groton graduates, Dr. Park holds degrees from University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, Harvard's School of Public Health, and Brown University. She chaired Groton's Parent Fund from 2017–21 and was vice-chair of the Fund from 2016–17.

Groton School welcomed four new trustees in 2020 as well: Ellen Curtis Boiselle ’85 of Boston; Crista Herbert Gannon '81, P'11 of Wilmington, Vermont; David Porter ’72, P’20, ’24 of Fort Worth, Texas; and Alfred Winkler ’85, P’23 of Hempstead, New York. 

Dr. Boiselle is associate director of the Learning Disabilities Program at Boston Children's Hospital; she holds a PhD from Tufts University, a master’s from Columbia, and a bachelor’s from Yale. She also serves on Angell Animal Medical Center’s advisory council. 

Ms. Gannon, a former longtime marketing manager for IBM, holds a bachelor’s from University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill; she chairs the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center’s regional advisory board. Ms. Gannon is president of the Groton Fund.

Mr. Porter, founder and president of the PNL Companies in Dallas, a real estate investment firm, holds an MBA and AB from Harvard and a master’s from Northeastern University. He also serves as a trustee for the Amon Carter Museum and the STAR Sponsorship Program. 

Dr. Winkler is chief of urology at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and Lower Manhattan Hospital. An assistant professor of clinical urology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Winkler earned his MD at SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, an MBA at NYU’s Stern School of Business, and an AB from Princeton.

Groton’s Board of Trustees reflects the diversity of the school and its focus on inclusion and belonging. Of twenty-seven members of the board, eleven are women, five are Black, and five are of Asian/Asian American descent.