Board of Directors
Tim Boroughs, Chair
Westport, CT
Tim is Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Chubb Group. Previously, 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.
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.
Esteban Espinal
Cartagena, Colombia
Esteban is the Executive Director and Founder of Squash Urbano Colombia, SEA’s international affiliate program which launched in 2014 in Cartagena. Under Esteban’s leadership, Squash Urbano has grown to enroll 60 students, three of whom have gained admission to boarding schools in the United States. Squash Urbano has developed one of the strongest squash programs in the SEA network, and SUC students have won national tournaments in Colombia as well as two SEA National titles. From 2009 to 2014, Esteban was the Squash Director at CitySquash in the Bronx. Previously, Esteban coached at a squash club outside of New York City and lived in Toronto while playing on the professional men’s squash tour. Esteban graduated from Los Andes University in Bogotá.
Adrian Grant
New York, NY
Adrian is a former world ranked squash player and runs AG Squash Academy in New York City. He reached a career-high ranking of No. 9 in the world in 2009 and has won 18 PSA tournaments, multiple World Team and European Team Championships, and a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Adrian coaches private and group sessions and coordinates national and international summer camps through AG Squash Academy. Adrian lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter and volunteers for StreetSquash in Harlem.
Jack Hellmann
New Canaan, CT
Jack is the Chief Executive Officer of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W), an operator of 116 freight railroads worldwide that has been owned by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners of Canada 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 SquashPort in Bridgeport, CT.
Elizabeth Berylson Katz
Boston, MA
Liz played varsity squash at Harvard University and is a trustee of the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation. Liz has been involved with SEA’s partnership with Exeter’s Summer School, and is a supporter of SquashBusters in Boston and Lawrence. A resident of Boston, Liz most recently worked in the Retail Division of CHANEL, Inc. and is a full-time parent.
Pam Kiernan
New York, NY
Pam is the Chief Administrative Officer of Two Sigma, an investment firm with $50 billion assets under management based in New York City. At Two Sigma, Pam is responsible for operations, workplace services, and corporate platform and initiatives. Previously, Pam was at Deutsche Bank for eighteen years, most recently as a managing director and head of Global Prime Finance. Pam was named one of 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds by the Hedgefund Journal in 2013. A graduate of Penn State, Pam lives in Brooklyn, and has two children who play squash competitively.
Kevin Klipstein
New York, NY
Kevin is the CEO of U.S. SQUASH, the national governing body and membership organization for the sport in the United States. In addition to owning the U.S. Open, the North American Open, and other U.S. Championships, U.S. SQUASH selects and supports the U.S. Teams, maintains the official ratings and rankings system for the country, and invests in programs to grow participation in the sport at every level. Before joining U.S. Squash in 2004, Kevin worked for Sun Microsystems in the Worldwide Marketing Operations group. Kevin also managed worldwide sponsorships, which included negotiating sales and marketing deals with MLB.com and a multi-year relationship with the National Hockey League. Prior to Sun, Kevin worked in the corporate consulting division of the sports marketing firm ProServ. Kevin graduated from Cornell University, where he was a member of the varsity squash team.
Arnold Lehman
New York, NY
Arnold has been an activist museum director since 1974. He started his career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was then Executive Director of the Urban Improvements Program of New York; Director of the Parks Council of New York; Director of the Metropolitan Museum and Art Centers of Dade County; Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art; and Director of the Brooklyn Museum from 1997 to 2015. With the second largest collection in the country, under Arnold’s guidance, Brooklyn became one of America’s most robust – an average age of 34 (down from 59 in 1998) – and diverse cultural institutions, with over 40% of its visitors people of color. During his Brooklyn tenure, Arnold chaired the City’s Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) of 33 major cultural institutions on or in City-owned property. Since his retirement in 2015, Arnold Lehman has been senior advisor at Phillips, the international auction house for modern and contemporary art. He is a Trustee of the Bard Graduate Center, the American Federation of Arts, and on the Executive Committee of the American Friends of the Israel Museum. A director since 1982, Arnold is Chair of the Legg Mason Funds. He is Brooklyn-based and, most importantly, was an avid squash player for over a half century.
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. 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 more than over four years in Lausanne, Switzerland, 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.
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, plays 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, where 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.
Janae Meyer
Chicago, IL
Janae Meyer is CEO of MetroSquash, one of the largest and most successful member organizations in the SEA network, with operations in Chicago and Evanston. Janae joined MetroSquash in 2016 as the Chief Program Officer, a role that she held for seven years. Prior to MetroSquash, Janae worked for over a decade at I Have a Dream North Chicago, a nonprofit organization that serves students in fifth grade through college. Previously, Janae worked with Steans Family Foundation, focusing on research of non-traditional postsecondary pathways. Janae holds a Masters in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Applied Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Sarah Robertson
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.
Talbott Simonds
Greenwich, CT
Talbott Simonds 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 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
Philadelphia, PA
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, after reaching the semi-finals of the British Open and the CIB Egyptian Open, and winning the Oracle Netsuite Open. 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 Philadelphia, PA.
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.
Patrick Williams
Oakland, CA
Patrick is the Executive Director of SquashDrive, SEA’s member program in Oakland. A graduate of the network’s first member program, SquashBusters, Patrick is the first alumnus of an SEA program to be an executive director in the network. Previously, Patrick was the Site Director at the Watts/Willowbrook Boys & Girls Club and spent four years as the Youth Program Director at the YMCA in South Los Angeles. Prior to moving to the West Coast, Patrick coached squash at Beaver Country Day School, the University Club of Boston, and the Union Boat Club, volunteered at SquashBusters, taught elementary school in Maine, and worked as an after-school coordinator at the YWCA. Patrick earned a B.A. from Bates College, where he was senior class president, co-captained the varsity squash team, received a NESCAC sportsmanship award, and founded Lewiston Squash, a program for Sudanese and Somali refugees. Patrick has a Master’s in Coaching & Athletic Administration from Concordia University Irvine.
Keith Wofford
New York, NY
Keith is a partner of global law firm White & Case’s Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice in New York, 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 20 member programs in the United States and five affiliate organizations abroad, with combined enrollment exceeding 2,500 students. 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.
Busani Xaba
Amherst, MA
Busani is the head coach of the Amherst College women’s and men’s varsity squash teams. Previously, he was the Director of Squash and Athletics at the University Club of San Francisco. Prior to his time in San Francisco, Busani spent six years as an Assistant Coach for two top-10, nationally ranked programs at Dartmouth College and as the Head Coach of the Men’s Club Squash Team at the University of California, Berkeley.
A former national champion in his native Zimbabwe, Busani rose through the junior ranks during his playing career and helped the national team finish 15th overall at the Junior Men’s World Championships in 2000. He completed a two-year course in sports and recreation at Kingston Maurward College in Dorchester, England. Busani lives in Massachusetts with his wife Lauren, the founder of SEA’s Oakland member program SquashDrive, and their two children.
Paul Yablon
New York, NY
Paul is Chief Investment Officer and Founder of Room40 Capital, a multi-strategy investment platform focused on crypto. Prior to Room40 Capital, Paul was a portfolio manager focusing on global macro strategies at Moore Capital. Before joining Moore in 2008, Paul spent fifteen years at Greenwich Capital Markets, where he was a proprietary trader, oversaw the US Government Bond trading desk, and ran Global Proprietary Trading. Before joining Greenwich Capital Markets, Paul worked at Barclays de Zoette and Brown Brothers Harriman. Paul has been a volunteer mentor at the Boys Club of New York and has served on the boards of the United Jewish Appeal of Greenwich, Allan Houston Legacy Foundation, and the Browning School. Paul graduated from Trinity College, and his children play squash and have volunteered at StreetSquash in Harlem.
William E. Simon, Jr., Chair Emeritus
Los Angeles, CA
Bill is a Partner 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.