Board of Directors

Jack Hellmann, Chair
New Canaan, CT
Jack is a Vice Chair of the Infrastructure Group at Brookfield Asset Management and the Executive Chairman of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W), an operator of 116 freight railroads worldwide that has been owned by Brookfield and GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, since 2019. Prior to that, G&W was an NYSE-listed company for which Jack held various roles over the past 20 years including Chairman, CEO, President and CFO. Jack is a graduate of Princeton University, where he played on the squash team, received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, and has an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with a concentration in China Studies. Jack is married with three children and lives in New Canaan, CT. He is a board member of SquashBridge in Bridgeport, CT.

Tim Boroughs,
Westport, CT
Tim is Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Chubb Group. Before that he was Chief Investment Officer of ACE Limited, a position he held since joining the company in 2000. Tim was Director of Fixed Income at Tudor Investment Corporation from 1997 to 2000 and Managing Partner and Director of Global Leveraged Investment Activity at Fischer Francis Trees & Watts from 1976 to 1997. He completed his B.A. at Indiana University with highest honors. Tim is a former trustee and board member at the American School in London and is currently a trustee of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra of New York. He has played squash for decades, and lives in Westport, CT with his wife, Barbara.

Todd Bourell
Westwood, MA
Todd is the Managing Partner of WLJ Capital, an investment firm he founded in 2015. Prior to forming WLJ he was a Partner at ValueAct Capital. Todd is a graduate of Harvard College, where he was a member of the heavyweight crew team and earned his M.B.A. at the Wharton School. He is a late-in-life convert to squash. Todd resides with his family in Westwood, MA. His wife, Brooke, was a member of two national champion squash teams at Harvard and a captain in her senior year. Todd and Brooke have three children, all of whom play squash. Todd previously was a member of the Board of Directors of KAR Auction Services. He is currently a Member of the Corporation of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
Owen Butler
Wilmington, DE
Owen is the Executive Director of First State Squash. A native of Toronto, Owen played on the varsity squash team at Cornell University. After graduating, Owen worked for four years as the Director of Squash and Operations at Squash Haven and completed SEA’s Leadership Fellows program before enrolling in a Masters of Education program at St. Lawrence. While at St. Lawrence, Owen was an assistant coach for the women’s and men’s varsity teams. When Owen became the second Executive Director of First State Squash in Wilmington, DE in 2019, the organization faced the existential risk of losing access to courts at its partner YMCA facility. Under Owen‘s leadership, First State Squash completed a $2 million capital campaign – with a challenge grant from SEA – that enabled the organization in 2023 to purchase and renovate a 28,000 square foot facility with six squash courts, classrooms, and community space.

Margaret Kent Edson
New York, NY
Margaret was a Special Projects Coordinator at Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers (HEART), an education nonprofit. Previously, Margaret spent eight years at the JPB Foundation, one of the largest grant-making foundations in the United States with over $4 billion in assets. Before joining JPB, Margaret was a Teach For America Corps Member and taught elementary school at Achievement First in Brooklyn. Margaret earned a B.A. at Princeton University, where she played varsity squash. She received a M.Ed from Hunter College and M.P.H. from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
David Ford, Jr.
Philadelphia, PA
David is a Partner at Maplewood Capital, an asset management firm in Philadelphia and a Founder and Managing Partner at 1112 Partners, LLC, a single-family investment office. Previously, David was the Managing Partner of Gatemore Capital Management, LLC, a multi-family investment office, and he worked at Select Equity Group, MSD Capital, and Goldman Sachs. David graduated from Amherst College and received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. David played on the varsity squash team at Amherst, which finished #2 in the country during his four years. David serves on the boards of Philadelphia’s SquashSmarts and the Haverford School, and he previously served on the board of SEA from 2006 to 2018.
Rodney Galvao
Boston, MA
Rodney is the CEO of SquashBusters. The second graduate of an SEA program to lead a member organization, Rodney joined SquashBusters at the age of 12 and played on the varsity squash team at Bates. After graduating in 2014, Rodney joined SquashBusters as a Squash Coordinator at its Boston location. Over the next decade, Rodney continued to take on more responsibility at SquashBusters, eventually becoming the Program Director in Providence and then Senior Development Officer for all three SquashBusters sites. Rodney was named CEO in 2024, and today oversees SEA’s largest member organization, which employs 25 people, has a $4 million operating budget, and enrolls more than 300 students in Boston, Providence, and Lawrence.

David Hand
Singapore
David is a Partner and Head of Asia Private Equity in the Ares Private Equity Group. Prior to joining Ares, David was the Founder and Managing Partner of Crescent Point, where he focused on private equity investments across Asia. He serves on the Board of Directors of Fangzhou Inc. and Wego Pte. Ltd. David holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. He captained Yale’s varsity squash team during the 1995-1996 season and remains an active player today.
Lauren Herterich
Charleston, SC
Lauren has served as the Executive Director of Kids On Point since 2015. During her tenure, she has overseen the renovation of the College of Charleston’s squash facility and led the organization’s expansion to a second site in North Charleston. With an annual budget exceeding $1 million, Kids On Point now serves 400 students each year. Lauren’s background in health education, fundraising, and grant writing has been instrumental in her leadership. In 2025, Lauren was selected to be an Afterschool Ambassador by the Afterschool Alliance. Prior to joining Kids On Point, she worked with several nonprofits, including Operation Home, Camp Happy Days, and the Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry, where she served on the board. Originally from Georgia, Lauren earned a B.S. from Georgia Southern University with a focus on public health and health education.

Lynn Leong
New Haven, CT
Lynn is the Brooks G. Ragen Director of Squash at Yale University. She joined the Bulldogs in 2017 as a senior assistant coach, was named associate head coach in 2019, and became head coach in 2021. Lynn is the first woman to coach the men’s squash team at Yale, the third woman to direct the women’s program, and the first Asian-American squash head coach at Yale. Lynn is also a Principal at Pinnacle Squash, managing all aspects of their programs and serving as Director of summer squash camps. In addition, Lynn serves as the chair of the Yale Athletics Community Engagement & Events Subcommittee and works closely with SEA member program Squash Haven, which is based out of Yale. Lynn earned a B.A. at Trinity College, where she played on the varsity squash team and won two national team championships. Since coming to the U.S. from Malaysia, Lynn has been a two-time Interscholastic individual champion at St. George’s School (R.I.) and a three-time, first-team All-American at Trinity.

William Louis-Marie
Paris, France
William is the CEO of the World Squash Federation, the global governing body of the sport. Prior to joining WSF, he worked for the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA), most recently as Executive Director, and as the Director of Communications for the Baku 2015 European Games Organizing Committee. William began his career in sport in 1994 as the Communications Manager for Coca-Cola France, where he managed PR and Communication campaigns around the Olympic Games, the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the Tour de France. After living in Lausanne, Switzerland for over four years, William now resides in Paris.

Justin Lungstrum
New York, NY
Justin is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP, the international law firm headquartered in New York City. Justin specializes in syndicated loan financings and has significant experience in the representation of financial institutions, investment banks, financial sponsors and corporate borrowers. Justin graduated from Yale University, where he played varsity football, and received his J.D. from the University of Kansas. Justin plays squash actively, his two children are nationally ranked players, and his wife, Emily, is a former Yale All-American.

Andy McAfee
Chicago, IL
Andy is a co-owner and Manager of the Chicago Grizzlies in the National Squash League. He serves on Yale’s Midwest Regional Advisory Board and the Yale Alumni Schools Committee. Andy has spent most of his career in advertising. He led consumer advertising at AbelsonTaylor, the world’s largest independent biopharma and health-and-wellness advertising agency, for more than 20 years. Previously, he was vice president at Leo Burnett, a Chicago-based consumer-products advertising agency. Andy graduated from Yale University, where he played on the varsity squash team. He was a founding board member of MetroSquash and continues to serve on its board. Andy was also a member of SEA’s rebranding task force, helping to create a new logo and change the name from National Urban Squash and Education Association (NUSEA). Andy continues to play squash, has a son and daughter who play junior squash at the national level, and lives with his wife, Cecily, in Chicago.

Sarah Robertson, Vice Chair
New York, NY
Sarah serves on the boards of the Environmental Defense Fund, the Robertson Foundation, and SEA member program CitySquash. Previously, she served as board chair of Girls Prep Lower Eastside and was a member of the advisory board of Teach for America New York. Sarah assists with communications and workshops at PAVE Academy, a partner school of CitySquash’s Brooklyn site. Sarah completed her B.A. at Duke University, worked as a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal, and is a freelance writer, with pieces in such publications as The New York Times, Mindful Magazine, and Duke Magazine. The mother of four avid squash players, Sarah leads meditation classes for kids and women and resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Adrian Marshall
New York, NY
Adrian is a co-founder and former CEO and CIO of Elmwood Asset Management. Prior to Elmwood, Adrian was at BlackRock and served as the lead portfolio manager for US leveraged loan mandates in addition to acting as the co-head of the US CLO management business. At BlackRock, he held numerous roles including serving as a portfolio manager for multi-strategy investment grade mandates and as a business development professional. Adrian earned a B.A. from Williams College, where he played on the varsity squash team. Adrian and his wife, Lydia, serve on the Board of Trustees at Westminster School in Connecticut.
Abbie McDonough
Washington, D.C.
Abbie McDonough is the Founder of McDonough Strategies, a strategic communications consultancy. She has 20 years of experience in strategic, political, and litigation communications and reputation management. She has served as a communications advisor to leaders of national and global institutions as well as elected leaders from U.S. senators to state attorneys general. She previously worked at a strategic communication firm where she worked on a variety of complex crisis and litigation matters for non-profit, corporate, and cooperative clients. Prior to that, Abbie served as communications director for D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and she spent over a decade on Capitol Hill, including serving as communications director for U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp and as national press secretary for U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller. Abbie earned a B.A at Yale University, where she played on the varsity squash team. After graduation, Abbie volunteered for CitySquash as a mentor and she is a longtime supporter of SEA’s Changemakers Tour, helping organize meetings for the group during their annual trip to D.C. She resides in Washington, D.C. and has two daughters who are learning to play (and hopefully love!) squash.

Rene Mendez
New York, NY
Rene is a Partner at Pinehouse Capital, LLC in New York, NY. Previously, he worked as Managing Director at Natixis Capital Markets, IXIS Capital Markets, Paine Webber, and Kidder Peabody. Rene earned his B.A. from Cornell University, his M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Both of Rene’s daughters played squash at Harvard, and his eldest daughter, Haley, played on the professional squash circuit and is a member of the U.S. National Team. Rene and his wife, Leslie Henshaw, are longtime supporters of CitySquash and live in Brooklyn, NY.

Guillermo Moronta
South Orleans, MA
Guillermo is a SquashBusters alumnus and Associate Director of Admissions at Tabor Academy, from which he graduated in 2002. Prior to joining Tabor in 2019, Guillermo spent seven years at the Belmont Hill School where he served as Director of Residential Life, Associate Director of Admissions, a math and Spanish teacher, and head coach for the squash and baseball programs. Previously, Guillermo taught math at Portsmouth Abbey School and was a teaching squash professional in Philadelphia. Guillermo earned a B.A. at Bates College, where he studied economics and played on the Men’s Squash Team. While at Tabor, Guillermo has served as the inaugural Director of Squash and recruited and coached numerous SEA participants, including students from Cartagena’s Squash Urbano Colombia.

Janaé Meyer
Chicago, IL
Janaé currently serves as CEO of MetroSquash, the first midwest program in the network. She developed a deep love for the SEA model after witnessing firsthand the transformative impact on students, families, and the community. Janaé joined MetroSquash in 2016 as Program Director where she helped to grow organizational impact through intentional partnership, capacity-building, and broadening MetroSquash’s reach and scope. She worked alongside MetroSquash founding CEO David Kay to launch the organization’s satellite site in Evanston, IL, was instrumental in the organization’s three-year strategic plan, and is excited for the next chapter where she gets to raise MetroSquash’s visibility and help to create long-lasting connection to the mission. Janaé earned her Masters from the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and a Bachelors from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a native Chicagoan and proud mom of a son, Christian.

Talbott Simonds
Greenwich, CT
Talbott is a Managing Director of Tondern Capital, an arm of the Hillman Company. Previously, Talbott was a Vice President at Trident Capital and an Associate at Robertson Stephens. Talbott earned a B.A. at Princeton University and an MBA at Harvard. Talbott is a co-founder and past board member of Steel City Squash in Pittsburgh, and he is involved in a variety of nonprofits in Pittsburgh and New York. An avid squash player, Talbott is a longtime supporter of CitySquash, for which he served as a mentor. Talbott lives in Greenwich, CT.

Amanda Sobhy
Boca Raton, FL
Amanda is one of the best American squash players of all time. A native of Sea Cliff, NY, Amanda won the World Junior Championships in 2010, becoming the first American to win the prestigious event. As a student at Harvard University, she won the National Intercollegiate Championships four times and did not lose a match during her four years. Amanda reached a ranking of #3 in the world in 2021, and led Team USA to gold medal finishes at the 2019 and 2023 Pan American Games and silver medal finishes at the 2022 and 2024 World Team Championships. Known for giving back to the game, Amanda is a board member of U.S. Squash, a mentor to a SquashBusters student, and regularly volunteers to play in exhibitions for SEA programs across the United States. Amanda resides in Boca.

Oliver Weisberg
Hong Kong
Oliver is Chief Executive Officer of Blue Pool Capital, a multi-strategy investment firm based in Hong Kong, Vice Chairman of BSE Global, and Alternate Governor of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty. Previously, Oliver was a Partner at Citadel and worked for Goldman Sachs. A tennis player in high school, Oliver was a walk-on member of the squash team at Harvard University, where he earned a B.A. Oliver is on the Advisory Board of the Harvard University Shanghai Center and the Harvard China Fund, and served on the board of Teach for China for over a decade. Oliver is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin.

Keith Wofford
Miami, FL
Keith is a partner of global law firm White & Case’s Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice in Miami, where he focuses on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. Previously, he was co-managing partner of the 400-lawyer New York office of Ropes & Gray and worked as a senior analyst in the structured finance group at Moody’s Corporation. Keith has been named a Fellow by the American College of Bankruptcy, “Outstanding Restructuring Lawyer” by Turnaround and Workouts, and has been included in top lawyers lists from Benchmark Litigation, Chambers USA, and New York Super Lawyers. A graduate of Harvard University, where he earned his B.A. and J.D., Keith is a founding board member of the New York Historical Society’s Minorities in Restructuring and Alternative Investments Chairman’s Council. Keith is an advisory board member at Legal Outreach, and has served on the board of the Harlem Community Development Corporation.

Tim Wyant
New York, NY
Tim co-founded SEA in 2005 and became executive director in 2012. Under Tim’s leadership, SEA’s membership has grown from 12 to 21 member programs in the United States and seven international partners, with combined enrollment in our core programming exceeding 3,000 students. In 2021, Tim launched a grantmaking function at SEA that has since distributed more than $2 million to SEA’s network of member programs in support of academic innovation, squash excellence, capital projects, capacity building, and the launch of programs in new cities. Previously, Tim was the founding executive director of CitySquash, the country’s fourth squash and education program, which operates in the Bronx and Brooklyn. A graduate of Harvard University, where he played varsity soccer and was an All-American on the squash team, Tim later competed on the professional squash tour and was a member of the U.S. men’s national team. A native of Cincinnati and resident of New York City, Tim is a board member of US Squash.
Brian Zied
New York, NY
Brian is the Chief Financial Officer of Zeta Charter Schools in New York City. He began his career in investment banking at Bear Stearns and later worked as an Analyst and Portfolio Manager for equity hedge funds, including Omega Advisors and Maverick Capital. Brian founded Charter Bridge Capital, a hedge fund focused on consumer, media, and technology investments. Brian graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in its Management & Technology dual degree program, earning a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business and a B.A.S. from the Moore School of Engineering. A native of Cincinnati, he learned squash as an adult and is an avid player. Brian is a longtime supporter of CitySquash and SEA.

William E. Simon, Jr., Chair Emeritus
Los Angeles, CA
Bill is Partner Emeritus of Simon Quick Advisors, a firm providing wealth management, investment consulting, and family office services. Prior to becoming a partner at Simon Quick Advisors, he was Co-Chairman of William E. Simon & Sons, LLC, an investment firm which he co-founded with his brother and father in 1988. Previously, Bill co-founded a municipal bond company and held senior positions at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. Earlier in his career, Bill worked as Assistant United States Attorney under then Unites States Attorney, Rudolph Giuliani. A 1982 Boston College Law School graduate, Bill earned a B.A. from Williams College, where he played varsity squash and is a Lifetime Emeritus Trustee. Bill is the Co-Chairman of the William E. Simon Foundation and he and his wife, Cindy, established the Sound Body Sound Mind Fitness Program for Los Angeles area high schools. Bill is the Founder and Chairman of the Board for Parish Catalyst, Chair Emeritus of the Board of Advisors for Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and Covenant House California, a Trustee of St. John’s Health Center Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors at Douglas Emmett and Co. and the Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles, and a member of the Knights of Sovereign Military Order of Malta. In addition, Bill is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Law as well as in the Undergraduate Department of Economics and is a Senior Fellow at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs.

Amrit Kanwal, Chair Emeritus
Boston, MA
Amrit is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MFS Investment Management, a Boston-based global investment firm where he has worked since 2009. Previously, Amrit held executive positions at Putnam Investments, Pepsi, and Miller Brewing. From 2007 to 2016, Amrit served on the board of SquashBusters, the country’s first squash and education program, chairing its governance and nominating committee. Amrit was also a board member of U.S. Squash, the national governing body of squash, for which he served on the finance and audit committees. A native of Hong Kong, Amrit earned a B.A. from the University of Texas and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. He is an active squash player and one of his two children plays competitively.










