The Executive Committee runs the daily operations of the Foundation and its members are part of the general Board of Directors. It is currently comprised of the three original founders:

Jeremy Fain
Jeremy began his swimming career as part of a summer swim team in Montgomery County, Maryland at the age of six, and at the age of twelve began swimming year-round for the Rockville Montgomery Swim Club (RMSC) as part of USA Swimming. Jeremy qualified for nationals at the age of sixteen and swam for four years in college. He began coaching and swimming on the Red Tide Masters swim team after a five year hiatus from the sport. His career as a coach began at fifteen and he has taught swimmers from the ages of four to sixty-four. Jeremy is currently the Senior Director of Industry Services for the Interactive Advertising Bureau where he consults major media companies on interactive advertising strategies. Jeremy Fain holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia University.

Alan Fishman
A recent graduate of Princeton University, Alan Fishman holds an A.B. in Public Policy and Finance from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs with a focus on healthcare economics. He began his swimming career at the age of six and started swimming year-round at age nine. A graduate of JEB Stuart High School in Falls Church, VA, Alan was Captain, a school-record holder, and a Virginia High School State Champion. Recruited to swim in college, during his senior year Alan captained the team to both the 2006 EISL Conference and Dual Meet Championships. Today, he works in equity research at Thomas Weisel Partners, an investment bank, covering the healthcare IT and pharmaceutical services sectors. He continues to swim for both the New York Athletic Club and the Red Tide Masters Swim Club. Alan has coached and given private swim lessons since the age of fifteen and is currently a coach with Red Tide.

Kristin Gary
Kristin Gary has been a competitive swimmer since the age of six, swimming for the Wilton Wahoos in Connecticut. She attended Duke University where she swam for four years, was team captain, held a school record and was awarded the swimmer of the year in 1989. After graduating with a BA in Art History, she received her Masters in Art History from the University of Art and Restoration in Florence, Italy, where she specialized in Italian art. After an eleven-year break from the sport, Kristin re-entered swimming as a Masters swimmer in 2000 and has since won over 10 United States Masters National titles, including 4 in May of 2007, and also won a World Championship title in Perth, Australia in 2008. She swims for both the New York Athletic Club and Red Tide Masters Swim Club. She is currently President of the Red Tide Masters which has been existence for over twenty years and has more than 150 swimmers ranging in age from 23 to 70. Ms. Gary runs a private art gallery specializing in European paintings, sculpture and drawings from the Old Masters through the 20th century. She has been working in the art world since 1993, dealing privately since 1999, and has extensive experience with both American and European private clients, museums and institutions.

Jim Bolster
Jim Bolster has been the head coach of the Columbia men's swimming team for over 20 years. In that time he has captured an Eastern Swimming League title and had his swimmers break over 30 school records. A native of Princeton, New Jersey, and one of 14 children, Jim graduated from Ohio’s Denison University in 1977 and was one of the finest athletes in the school’s history. Twice named the school's Most Valuable Swimmer, he won an NCAA Championship in the 200 butterfly in 1976, five conference titles in the 100 and 200 butterfly, and was a six-time NCAA Division III All-American. He also starred in soccer and lacrosse, earning four letters in each of the three sports. Selected in the first round of the 1977 North American Soccer League draft by the Connecticut Bicentennials, he played two years with Connecticut and Washington. He then utilized an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and earned a master's degree from the University of Michigan. Bolster lives in Manhattan with his wife, Sharon Rose Kelly, and three sons, Jake Thomas, Luke Charles, and Clay Murdoch.

Susan Casey
Susan Casey is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks,” (published June 2005 by Henry Holt & Company). Until September 2006, Casey was the Development Editor of Time Inc., the world’s largest magazine publisher. Previously she was the Editor of Sports Illustrated Women and an Editor at Large for Time Inc.’s magazine titles. Under her editorship, Sports Illustrated Women was nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. She also served as the creative director of Outside magazine, which during her tenure won three consecutive, history-making National Magazine Awards for General Excellence. At Outside she was part of the editorial team that developed the stories behind the bestselling books “Into Thin Air,” and “The Perfect Storm,” as well as the movie “Blue Crush.” In 2006, her story “The Oceans Are Turning to Plastic…Are You?” received a National Magazine Award nomination in the Public Interest category. She is frequently published in magazines in the United States, Canada and Asia, including Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Time, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Outside, and National Geographic. She is currently working on a new book, “100: Stalking the Giants of the Ocean.” (Doubleday, 2009). A native of Toronto, Casey lives in New York City.

Christopher Horgan
Chris Horgan is currently a Managing Director in the Investment Banking division of Credit Suisse First Boston in New York City and is responsible for a portfolio of loan and derivative assets. Chris has held various positions at CSFB since 1993, including Vice President in the Corporate Banking Group, and has worked at financial institutions throughout his career, including Security Pacific National Bank and Wells Fargo. He received his MBA from Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and his BA also from Duke University with a double major in Political Science and Economics. Chris was a four-year member of the varsity swim team and a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife and four children.

Jane Kelsey
Jane Kelsey is a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and currently serves as the Chief of Staff to the Chief Administrative Officers where she is responsible for managing projects across its Operations, Technology, Finance and Services divisions. Jane joined Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking division in 1998 and has worked in both its Mergers & Acquisitions and Industrials groups. While attending Stanford University, she was a member of the national champion women’s swim team for four years and received a BA with distinction in Economics and a Masters of Arts in International Policy Studies. She has been swimming competitively since the age of six and was a member of Stanford University’s national champion women’s swim team for three years. In addition to her banking career, she is a published author of two educational textbooks, Career Portraits, Plants and Career Portraits, Science.

Jennifer Thompson
Jennifer ("Jenny") Beth Thompson is a former swimmer, and one of the most decorated Olympians in history, winning twelve medals, including eight gold, while representing the United States of America in the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics. Thompson, a Massachusetts native, began swimming for the Seacoast Swimming Association and first appeared on the international scene as a 14-year-old in 1987, when she won the 50-meter freestyle and placed third in the 100 m freestyle at the Pan American Games. She won her first world championship in 1991, as part of the USA's winning 4x100 freestyle relay team, and held the world record in the 50m and 100m freestyle when she participated in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. In 2006, Thompson received a medical degree from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. She interned at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center through the middle of 2007 and is now a resident in anesthesiology at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Rev. Dr. Bernard R. Wilson
Bernard R. Wilson became the 35th Senior Minister of Norfield Congregational Church in September 2004. Dr. Wilson has previously served as Executive Minister at The Riverside Church in the City of New York, Interim Senior Minister at Briarcliff Manor Congregational Church and as a Chaplain in the US Navy. He is an ordained minister of the Churches of God in Christ and holds full standing with the United Church of Christ. revbrwilson@norfield.org As a Navy Chaplain he served as The Assistant Chaplain of the Marine Corps and has received numerous awards, medals and citations for his stellar military career. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the David and Dovetta Wilson Scholarship Fund, a non-profit organization he started with his eight brothers and sisters. www.WilsonFund.org The Fund has awarded nine scholarship annually since its inception in 1990. The Wilson Family was named one of the “Families of the Year” by USA Today, “Heroes for America” by Reader’s Digest and featured in the NBC/AT&T special “Images and Realities the African-American Family.” Four of his siblings are in full-time ministry and his sister Ruby, Pastors the Safe Haven United Church of Christ in Brooklyn. Dr. Wilson holds advanced degrees from Morehouse College and The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA, Union Theological Seminary and New York Theological Seminary in New York City, Salve Regina University in Newport, RI and a Doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, MA. Dr. Wilson is married to the former Nereida Torres whom he met while they both were serving in the United States Navy. They have two Children, Michael Bernard Wilson, an officer in the United States Navy, Daniel Bernard Wilson, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a beautiful granddaughter, Mia Jean.

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