(Longboat Key, FL and Thomaston, ME) a Harvard graduate (B.A. and M.B.A.) has been both president and chairman of the board at Cabot Corporation. He is now chairman of Cabot-Wellington, LLC, a family investment office. He has served as chairman of the Brookings Institution and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and on many boards including New England Telephone, Owens Corning Fiberglas, R.R. Donnelley, Wang Laboratories and Arthur D. Little. He has served as a trustee of Northeastern University, Boston Museum of Science, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Conservation International, as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and the MIT Corporation, as co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences Presidents' Circle, and now serves as chairman of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Trust. He recently chaired the Island Institute's successful capital campaign, and is now chairman of the Island Institute's Anchors group.