Trustees



Gerald L. Holm joined Beneficial Corporation in 1970 as part of a team responsible for overseeing the development and installation of a data processing network that would link Beneficial's 1,800 offices to a centralized computer center. He served on the Board of Directors of Beneficial Corporation and as a consultant to the Corporation.

Mr. Holm began his career with The Boeing Company in Huntsville, Alabama, as a research engineer on the Saturn V Project in 1962. His assignment was trajectory computation and analysis. He left Huntsville, where he was then Director of Computer Applications, in 1969 to go to Boeing's Seattle Aerospace Operations. Mr. Holm was chosen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as Boeing's Huntsville representative to view the launch of Apollo 11 -- the first manned mission to land on the moon. Mr. Holm currently serves as president of Admiral’s Cove Cares Charitable Foundation in Jupiter, Florida.

Mr. Holm was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Texas Tech University in 1962 with a master of science degree in mathematics.

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Charles W. Bower joined Beneficial in 1941 and served in various capacities before retiring in 1981 as an officer of Beneficial Corporation. He also served as a director of Beneficial Corporation, and a member of the Audit Committee and Committee on Corporate Policy.

Mr. Bower received his Bachelor of Science and Master degrees from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

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Finn M. W. Caspersen, Jr., a third-generation member of the Caspersen family to serve on the board of trustees of the Hodson Trust, follows in the tradition of his grandfather, Olaus W. Caspersen, who served as trustee and chairman during the period 1928 to 1971, and his father, Finn M.W. Caspersen, who served as trustee and chairman during the period 1973 to 2009.

Mr. Caspersen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Harvard College in 1992, and was awarded his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1995, where his focus was on tax and corporate law. He is the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Peapack Gladstone Bank (PGC, NASDAQ).  

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Robert C. Clark was the Dean and Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School from 1989 through July 2003. He now serves as the Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. An authority on corporate law and corporate governance, he’s written numerous law review articles and book chapters, as well as a one-volume treatise, Corporate Law, which was hailed as "the paradigm for future student texts." Professor Clark has taught Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Theory of the Corporation, Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders, Regulation of Financial Institutions, Government and Health Care, and a seminar entitled Laws, Markets, and Morals.

Clark is a member of the board of directors of Time Warner, Inc., a media company, and Omnicom Group, Inc., a public entity, and advertising agency holding company. In addition, he is a trustee of the Teachers Insurance Annuity Association (“TIAA”), the largest private pension plan in the U.S. serving the higher education community. 

A graduate of Maryknoll College, Professor Clark received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University and earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1972. Clark is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. Among his hobbies is composing neoclassical music using synthesizers. He has been known to lighten an otherwise weighty subject in class with songs he has written.


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Daniel R. O'Brien

Daniel R. O’Brien joined Beneficial Corporation in 1984 as assistant vice president of internal audit of the Beneficial Insurance Group, and ascended to the position of chief executive officer.  In 1998, Beneficial merged with Household International Inc.  At that time, he was named managing director and chief executive officer of Household’s insurance group and assumed responsibility for the combined insurance operations of the merged companies.  He served in that capacity until his retirement from Household in 2002.

During his career, Mr. O’Brien served as a board member of several insurance industry associations.  He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of First Central National Life Insurance Company of New York, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank, and is chairman of the board’s audit committee.

Mr. O’Brien received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and business from Long Island University, and his master’s degree in business administration from Boston University.  

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Robert A. Tucker joined Beneficial in 1954 as assistant to the president of Beneficial Finance Co.

He retired as a member of the office of the president, first vice president and chief financial officer at the end of 1985 after 32 years of service. He served on the board of directors of Beneficial Corporation from March 1953 to June 1998. He also served on Beneficial Corporation’s Executive and Finance Committees. He is a graduate of The Peddie School, Wesleyan University, B.A. and Brown University, A.M.

Mr. Tucker is the founder and owner of Stonegate Standardbred Farms, a major breeding farm of harness horses in New Jersey. He is past chairman of the New Jersey Sire Stakes, past vice president of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture, and former trustee of The Seeing Eye.

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William B. Warren joined the law firm of Morris & McVeigh LLP as of counsel in January 2008, where he practices estate planning and administration and not-for-profit organizations law. For the prior forty-eight years, Mr. Warren practiced trust and estates, and tax law at Dewey Ballantine LLP (now Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP) where he became a partner in 1968.

Mr. Warren is a nationally-known expert in the field of trusts and estates law, and has lectured at the Institute for Federal Taxation at New York University. In addition to serving as a trustee of The Hodson Trust, he is a member of the Practicing Law Institute and the American Bar Association, a trustee of the Alice E. and Arthur F. Adams Foundation of Miami, Florida, and a member emeritus of the board of directors of the John Carter Brown Library of Providence, Rhode Island.

He is vice chairman of the Academy of American Poets, serves on the Bankers and Lawyers Advisory Committee to the New York Philharmonic, and is past president and an active member of The Grolier Club of New York City, the country's oldest and most prestigious organization for book collectors and bibliophiles.

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