Paul Montrone (age 75) is Chairman of Perspecta Trust LLC, a trust company that offers a full range of trust, wealth planning and investment management services to ultra-high net worth individuals and their families. He is Executive Chairman of two private investment companies, Latona Associates and Liberty Lane Partners.
Paul was chief executive officer of Fisher Scientific International Inc. from its 1991 initial public offering until 2006, when it merged with Thermo Electron in 2006. Before Fisher Scientific, he was chairman and chief executive officer of Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., an environmental services company and prior to that was executive vice president of the Signal Companies, Inc., and its successor, AlliedSignal Inc.…show more content… He is a board member of the New England Conservatory of Music, the Boston Symphony, Live Free or Die Alliance, the New England Helicopter Council (he is a licensed helicopter pilot), and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.
Paul also serves on the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School, where he established The Paul M. Montrone Seminar Series on Ethics at The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics of Columbia Graduate Business School, and where in 1962, he earned a Ph.D.
Sandra Gaudenzi Montrone is a former elementary school teacher who’s now active as a volunteer in the Hampton Falls school system, well as her church. She is the founder and former president of Seacoast Hospice, an all-volunteer organization dedicated to comforting and caring for patients and families facing end-of-life experiences that was named a Point of Light by President George H.W. Bush. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and has been a trustee of Maywood…show more content… Their assets include over $10,000,000 in New Hampshire real estate, earned income, proceeds from divested securities (Paul was an Insider of five public companies), other investments (Paul is Chairman of three financial management firms-(including specifically for the “ultra-wealthy”) and at least one private Trust.
Philanthropy Paul and Sandra are generous donors to a great many non-profits, especially in the arts and education. They give both as individual donors and as directors of the Penates Foundation.
Individual Giving
As individuals they’ve given over $2,000,000 to the Metropolitan Opera, Marywood University and Columbia University Graduate School of Business. They’ve made gifts of $1,000,000-$1,999,999 the Boston Symphony, Scranton University and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
They’ve made gifts of $100,000-$999,999 to the Foundation for the National Institute of Health, Harvard Medical School, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the University Of California San Diego and ArtSpace.
They’ve given many gifts in the $10,000-$99,999 range including: Doctors without Borders USA, the International Rescue Committee, the Innocence Project, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Catholic Schools Foundation, the Trust for Public Land and many
