Tom Lane, Managing Partner, NCS Bergen County / The Bergen County Society

Tom Lane is a Partner in a private equity firm, Energy Capital Partners (ECP), headquartered in Short Hills, NJ. ECP invests in energy infrastructure assets, and has $6 billion under management.  He was previously a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he worked for almost 20 years in the Energy and Power group in NYC.  Tom co-founded Bergen County Society, a chapter of NCS in northern NJ, in 2005 and serves as its President. BCS has grown from six guys in Tom’s family room, to a roster of over a 500 and average attendance of approximately 150.

Tom is a graduate of Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL) with a BA in Economics and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.  Tom serves on the board of Cardinal Gas Storage headquartered in Houston, TX and Summit Midstream headquartered in Atlanta, GA.  He also serves on several non-profit boards including Street2Street, Jericho Road and the New Canaan Society.  Tom and his wife Kathleen have four children, two of whom are married, and live in Franklin Lakes, NJ and Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Ryon Paton, Deputy Managing Partner, NCS San Francisco/Silicon Valley

Ryon Paton has been an executive in the commercial real estate industry for the past 27 years. He is currently a founder and principal of Trinitas Partners, a private equity investment group specializing in agricultural investments in the Central Valley of California. Presently, Trinitas has developed and is managing 4,000 acres of almond orchard land in Northern California.

Prior to entering the investment management arena, Ryon was an EMD with CB Richard Ellis where he managed global client development and served on the Executive Committee for the $1.3 billion Corporate Services Division. In this capacity Ryon's responsibilities included developing and managing the global real estate portfolios for AT&T, HSBC, Microsoft, and Bank of America. Ryon graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Classic Literature and Rhetoric.

This diversified and global business experience has given Ryon a platform, network, and perspective for helping men in the marketplace find purpose, friendship and reconciliation with themselves, their families and their Creator. He has been a director for Socrates in San Francisco, the annual Time Out Conference in Monterey, The Band of Friends, and numerous small group ministries.

Ryon and his wife Jan have been married for 34 years and have five children (16, 21, 24, 24, 28), two of whom are New Yorkers. The Patons have lived in Hillsborough, California for the past 28 years.

Evan Baehr

Evan Baehr is cofounder of Outbox, a service that helps busy families take control over their snail mail.  During his free time, he runs a non-profit called Teneo, the graduate school admissions firm K+E Advisors, and serves on the board of the New Canaan Society, Rivendell Institute, and the Manhattan Institute.  He loves studying design thinking, political philosophy, theology of work, and story telling, though he knows little about each.

He's a graduate of Harvard Business School, Yale Divinity School, and Princeton University. He's worked for the American Enterprise Institute's Charles Murray, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, served as a legislative aid on the House Appropriations Committee under Rep. Frank Wolf, and later helped build a technology company with PayPal founder Peter Thiel. He's married to the amazing Kristina Scurry Baehr, a litigation attorney and graduate of Yale Law School.  Together they are supervised by their 2-year old Cooper.  His father-in-law, Richard Scurry, took him to his first NCS retreat six years ago.

Tom Cole, NCS Manhattan

Tom joined Citigroup in July, 2010 as Co-Head of US Leveraged Finance, Citigroup Global Markets.  He is responsible for the non-investment grade loan and bond financings for US Corporate Clients and leveraged buyouts.
 
He joined the firm from HSBC where he was Co-Head of Global Banking, Americas.  His responsibilities included Client Coverage for Corporate and Investment Banking,  Leveraged Finance, Equity Capital Markets, Private Equity, M &A, and Project Finance for the region.
 
Prior to joining HSBC, Tom was the head of Deutsche Bank’s North American leveraged finance practice, which he started in 2001.  IFR Magazine recognized the group as U.S. Leveraged Finance house of the year in 2006.  Prior to 2001, he ran the chemical industry group practice within Investment Banking.  He joined the firm in 1987 in Corporate Finance in the Chicago office, and moved to London in 1992 where he oversaw the risk management associated with the firm's distressed debt trading, derivatives, and corporate finance activities.  Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, he spent three years at Continental Bank, and two years at General Electric.
 
Tom received a BS in Finance from Indiana University, where he currently serves on the Dean's Council, and a MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.
 
He is married to Kim, and they have three children, Jenna (25), Tara (23), and Jonathon (20).


Jay Helvey, NCS Winston-Salem

Jay Helvey is a Managing Partner with CMT Asset Management based in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Helvey is a former Managing Director with J.P. Morgan & Co., having served as Vice-Chairman of the firm’s Risk Management Committee and Global Head of Counterparty and Hedge Fund Risk Management during a 17 year career with the firm. He has a masters degree from Columbia University, specializing in international finance and banking, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cologne, Germany, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wake Forest University where he serves as Trustee and Vice Chairman of the Investment Policy Committee.

Mr. Helvey is also a Director of Pike Electric Corporation (PEC) which is listed on the NYSE. In 2004, Mr. Helvey was a candidate for the United States Congress in the 5th District of North Carolina. Mr. Helvey lives in Winston-Salem, NC with his wife Jane and five children, including twins who Jay and Jane adopted from Ethiopia in March of 2008. He is a member of River Oaks Community Church.

Jay co-founded and leads NCS Winston Salem.  The chapter has three weekly meetings with over 900 men on the roster and weekly attendance across the three meetings of over 200 men.  "NCS helps men to come into relationship with Christ and each other.  As the power of the gospel moves from the head into the heart, men are changed," says Jay. 

Jim Lane, Founder, NCS Manhattan

Jim Lane is Managing Partner of Devonwood Capital Partners and Chairman of NanoHoldings, LLC. He is President of the New Canaan Society, a non-profit organization which he founded in 1995.

Previously, Jim was Chairman and CEO of SG Capital Partners, the private equity business affiliated with Societe Generale and SG Cowen Securities. Prior to establishing SG Capital Partners, Jim's career spanned nearly 20 years at Goldman Sachs & Co. where he was a General Partner and a founding member of the Firm’s global private equity business.

Jim has a BA from Wheaton College and an MBA from Columbia University. He has served on several charitable boards including the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, The Trinity Forum, Wilberforce Forum (Prison Fellowship Ministries), and the New Canaan Society.

Jim and his wife, Susie, live in Dorset, VT, have three daughters, and a golden retriever, also female.

If you can get Jim to focus for any length of time, he will admit to suffering from a severe case of ADD.

Mac McNally, NCS Chicago-Downtown

Known in some circles for his comedic alter egos (Skip Bowlinski or Squirrel), Mac is best known for his work within the global mission of Young Life over the last 21 years. He uses his gifts of creativity, humor and business experience to build teams and drive growth in ministry. Mac has launched sites for YL in Maryland, Philadelphia, Ohio, Michigan, Long Island, New York City and Connecticut. Mac's success has earned him a national leadership position of Vice-President of Strategic Growth in Young Life. He is currently focused on expanding Young Life's presence in the Northeast and assisting with the development of Young Life in the Caribbean.

Additionally, Mac serves on the national board for the New Canaan Society. He even finds the time to sneak in a little sport fishing. Mac and his wife Tina and their five children live in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Paul Michalski, NCS New Canaan / The Founding Chapter

Paul became involved with the New Canaan Society in October 2003. 

Paul has been leading NCS New Canaan (the founding Chapter of NCS) since September 2007, and serves as a member of the Management Committee and Corporate Secretary of NCS.   He also serves as Chairman of the Benjamin Franklin House Foundation, as a Director of the Camelot Foundation and the New York Law Institute and as Chairman of the Young Life Committee for Darien/Rowayton.  Paul is also President of Third River Consulting, LLC, a strategic and transactional consulting firm.

Paul graduated from Harvard College in 1983 and Harvard Law School in 1986. He was an attorney in the corporate department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP for over 22 years, joining Cravath in 1986 and becoming a partner in 1994.  From 1996 through 2000, Paul was resident in the firm's London office.  

Paul took a leave of absence from October 2008 to June 2009 to help NCS in its transition from a regional to a national organization and realized that he was meant to begin a new chapter in his life.  While continuing to work with NCS and other non-profits, Paul tries daily to "show up", be "faithfully present", love Lisa and the kids, and listen.

He and his wife Lisa live in Darien, CT with their children, James and Annie. 
 
Hal Rosser, NCS Naples

Harold (Hal) O. Rosser is a Managing  Partner of Rosser Capital Partners Management, LP, a Greenwich, CT  based private investment firm he founded in 2011. Previously, he spent 15 years as founder and Managing Director of Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co., Inc., a New York based mid-market private equity firm, established in 1995 and before that, 20 years at Citibank/Citicorp/ Citicorp Venture Capital. Hal earned his BS from Clarkson University and attended Management Development Programs at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Stanford University Business School.

Hal is currently a director/trustee of Brio Bravo Restaurant Group., the Culinary Institute of America, and Wake Forest University.

Hal and his wife Rita live in Naples, FL and New Canaan, CT and have one son, Luke, who is married to Emily Weed (daughter of Dan Weed, fellow NCSer) and live in Darien, CT. Hal became a grandfather with the recent birth of Thomas Joseph Rosser. Hal co-founded the Naples NCS chapter in 2006.