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 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Knickerbocker LLC.
Finn M. W. Caspersen, 66, formerly was chairman and chief executive officer of Beneficial Corporation from 1976 to 1998, when Beneficial merged into Household International. During his tenure, the market capitalization of Beneficial Corporation grew from $480 million to $8.8 billion, an 18-fold increase. He is a graduate with honors from The Peddie School, Brown University, and Harvard Law School.
As a political independent, he is active on the local, state, and national level and served as longtime moderator of the Shelter Harbor Fire District in Rhode Island. At present, he is Commissioner of the Town of Jupiter Island, Florida and chairman of the Southern Martin Regional Utilities. He is past chairman of the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund, past co-chairman of Prosperity New Jersey, and former chairman of Save Ellis Island!
Mr. Caspersen is a national leader in the field of education. He was a trustee of the New Jersey Independent College Fund and the New Jersey State Board of Higher Education, and is a trustee emeritus of Brown University. He is chairman of the board of The Peddie School and a member of various Harvard University committees, including chairman of the Harvard Law School Dean’s Advisory Board. He was also a director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, and is a director of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards.
He is an active conservationist and is a member of various conservation organizations and charitable foundations including chairman of the Weekapaug Foundation for Conservation. A longtime equestrian sportsman, he is president emeritus of the United States Equestrian Team (USET), former chairman of the Gladstone Equestrian Association, and an honorary life-time officer of the Royal Windsor Horse Show of the United Kingdom. A former rower, he is the founder of the Princeton National Rowing Association, currently is the chairman emeritus, and was awarded the prestigious Jack Kelly award in 2007 by the U.S Rowing Association. He also is a member of the executive committee of the Coaching Club, a director of the National Rowing Foundation. and chairman of the Shelter Harbor Golf Club.
Mr. Caspersen is currently chairman of The Hodson Trust, a Maryland Trust, which has given almost $200 million to Maryland institutions of higher education, chairman and chief executive officer of Knickerbocker LLC, a Delaware private management firm overseeing the accounting and investments of various trusts, foundations, and individuals; chairman and chief executive officer of various Florida, Rhode Island, Delaware and New Hampshire real estate holding companies; and chairman of Westby Corporation, a privately-held Delaware agricultural conglomerate.
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.
 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, present chairman
of the board.
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, AMEX). Active in the community, he serves on the Township Committee of Bedminster Township, and the Board of Trustees of Cardigan Mountain School and the Willowwood Arboretum.
 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.
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 Boeing Co. 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 NASA as Boeing's Huntsville representative to view the
launch of Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on
the moon.
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.
Robert A. Tucker joined Beneficial
in 1954 as assistant to the president of Beneficial Finance
Co.
He retired as 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 and past vice president of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture.
In addition to serving
as a trustee of the Hodson Trust since 1959, Mr. Tucker is a trustee of The
Seeing Eye, and serves as chairman of its Canine Committee.
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 past 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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