Head of School
Kristy Kerin took the reins as Brewster Academy’s 13th Head of School on July 1, 2021—the first woman in the school’s two-century history to hold this position. A graduate of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, Kerin worked in the College’s Advancement Office for eight years prior to joining Brewster in 2011. Since then, she has worked tirelessly, often behind the scenes, to ensure that Brewster’s financial future and reputation are secure.
Email Ms. KerinWelcome Letter
When I stepped onto campus 14 years ago, I knew I’d found a school and community like no other. After a decade working in higher education, I was drawn at once to the energy and merriment of the secondary school atmosphere, enhanced by the expansive beauty of our lakeside campus and the warmth of the local community.
The feeling of joy at Brewster is immediately palpable, and that initial impression grows deeper with time.
At Brewster, students do not compete against each other, instead, they learn with and from one another. Here you will be respected and celebrated for who you are as a learner and for your unique talents and contributions. At the same time, you will also be challenged to work collaboratively with your classmates and teachers in Brewster’s team-based environment. As a result, you will come to better know your own approach to learning, what you value most, and the role you play in building a community.
Faculty, too, work collaboratively in well-coordinated teams responsible for the success of every student. Your teachers, coaches, advisors, and dorm parents will be available to lend support when needed, push you to take on new challenges, and cheer for you when you experience your proudest moments.
Our time-tested approach to learning ensures that when students leave Brewster, they do so with confidence, curiosity, creativity, and the ability to collaborate with others who think differently than they do. You will learn to value differences in others and celebrate your own unique strengths and learning styles. You will graduate with a clear understanding of what it means to live a life of purpose.
When you visit campus, I encourage you to build in time to speak with as many members of our community as possible, to experience firsthand Brewster’s ethos of unconditional positive regard. Please let me know if you will be visiting—I would love to spend time with you!
Warm regards,
Kristy Kerin
Read Kristy's Bio
On July 1, 2021 Kristy Kerin became Brewster Academy’s 13th Head of School. She is the first woman in the school’s two-century history to hold this position.
Kerin joined Brewster in May 2011 as Director of Advancement. In July 2017, she was named an Assistant Head of School, taking on oversight of institutional strategy work for the Academy while continuing to oversee the advancement division. She played pivotal roles in designing and launching two capital campaigns, including “Our Watershed Moment: The Campaign for Brewster,” the Academy’s largest and most successful campaign to date. Kristy helped implement an integrated approach to outreach that maximizes the reach of Brewster’s Admissions, Advancement, and Communications efforts.
Moving into the role of Associate Head of School in 2019, Kerin continued to lead Brewster’s strategy process, a vanguard approach designed to push leadership deeper into the organization and engage a wide variety of stakeholders in generating innovative new ideas to serve students and extend the influence of the Brewster Model, the school’s unique approach to education. During this time, she also served in an executive leadership role for the global campus project, working with the founding team to envision and execute on Brewster’s first international campus in Madrid, Spain, opening for the 2023-24 school year.
Kerin is a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, with a B.A. in American Civilization and a Japanese Studies minor. She holds a Master of Arts in International Education Management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
Formerly an internationally ranked high jumper, Kristy competed in the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials and was inducted into the NCAA Division III Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016. She was subsequently inducted into the Halls of Fame at Leicester High School and Middlebury College. Kristy lives on campus with her spouse David, their three children, Matthew '26, Daniel '28, and Joanna, and dog, Fred.
Board of Trustees
We at Brewster Academy are grateful for the volunteer service and leadership of our Board of Trustees under whose guidance the institution has thrived in service to our students.
Roy Ballentine P'94, '97
ChairBiography
Roy Ballentine and wife Sandy live in Wolfeboro and are Brewster alumni parents to daughter Susan, a 1994 graduate, and son Brian, a 1997 graduate. Prior to becoming board chair in 2015, Roy served as treasurer and chair of the finance and budget committee. Roy is executive chairman of Ballentine Partners LLC, which traces its roots to Ballentine & Co. Inc., which he founded in 1984. Roy is an endowment trustee for the Wolfeboro Area Children's Center, a board member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of NH, and a board member of Families in Transition. Roy recently completed his term as a member of the statewide Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
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Arthur W. Coviello, Jr.
Vice ChairBiography
Executive Chairman (retired)
RSA, The Security Division of Dell technologies (EMC)
Since his retirement as the chief executive officer of RSA, Art Coviello has remained very active in the security industry, investing in and advising a number of security startups as a private investor and in his roles as a Venture Partner at Rally Ventures (an early stage investor in business technologies), as an adviser to ClearSky Security Fund, and as a Senior Advisor to Blackstone’s Tactical Opportunities Group.
Mr. Coviello’s decades of expertise and influence have made him a recognized leader in the field and a regular speaker at conferences and forums around the world.
Prior to RSA, Mr. Coviello had extensive executive management experience in several technology companies.
He started his career as a certified public accountant at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (Deloitte.)
Mr. Coviello serves on the Boards of Directors at Synchrony Financial, Bugcrowd, Tenable, Capsule8, and ZeroNorth.
He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts in 1975 with a BBA, concentration in accounting.
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Brian C. Ballentine '97
Second Vice ChairBiography
Brian Ballentine is the senior vice president for strategy and senior advisor to the president at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The 8th oldest university in the nation, Rutgers has three major campuses, a world-class academic medical enterprise, and enrolls over 70,000 students. In his role, Brian is charged with leading major, cross-cutting initiatives for the university. He is a member of the President’s Cabinet and Associate Professor of the Practice of the Humanities in the Department of English at Rutgers-New Brunswick.
Prior to his appointment overseeing university strategy, he served as chief of staff from 2016 to 2020, and was responsible for the administration and day-to-day operations of the Office of the President, overseeing the flow of information within the university’s senior administration and serving as the president’s point person for a wide array of initiatives and projects.
Brian is the former executive director of Rutgers’ Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates, organizing a suite of programs that support undergraduate research training and initiatives for more than 800 students and more than 200 professors each year.
Before coming to Rutgers, he was research director at CEB, now Gartner, a global consulting and advisory firm, in Washington, DC. He served in the AmeriCorps VISTA program and earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. Brian’s teaching and research has focused on the history of English language and on the value of the humanities.
Brian lives in New Jersey with his wife, Debra, who is a scholar of ancient religions, and their two children. He was a “lifer” at Brewster, and a member of the first class to go through the new Brewster Model.
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Robert J. Mueller GP '17
TreasurerBiography
Robert J. Mueller has a long history of involvement with the town of Wolfeboro and is now a Brewster grandparent, as grandson Grant is a member of the Class of 2017. Summering in the area since the 1970s, Mueller is a vintage boat enthusiast who has been actively involved in the vintage boat races that occur in Wolfeboro Bay every other autumn. With an impressive career in finance, he was with The Bank of New York from 1965–1978 as vice president and after working with Fidelity Union Bank and Carteret Savings Bank in the 1970s and 1980s, Mueller returned to The Bank of New York from 1989–2004 as the senior executive vice president. He currently serves on multiple other boards and is especially proud of his 15 years of service on the board of the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) Foundation, which supports the largest institution in the City University of New York system. Mueller holds a bachelor of arts from Duke University and an MBA from NYU/GBA.
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Carlos Noble '70
SecretaryBiography
Carlos Noble, a 1970 graduate, and wife Georgia live in Coral Gables, Florida. Carlos is senior vice president at The Northern Trust Company in Miami where he manages the bank’s East Region residential lending activities. He also is involved with the bank’s community reinvestment activities. He currently serves as president of the board of directors of the Florida Community Loan Fund in Orlando; as vice chair of the board of directors of First Housing Development Corporation in Tampa; as co-chair of the United Way of Miami-Dade’s Older Adult’s Impact Council; and is a member of the United Way of Miami-Dade’s Community Investment Committee and Redesign Task Force. He received a B.A. in foreign service from Georgetown University and a master’s in international management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona.
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Ronn Bronzetti '92
TrusteeBiography
Ronn Bronzetti operates a real estate business called the “Lake Winni Team” with his wife, Sara Reineman, in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. From multi-million dollar waterfront homes, to homes for first-time home buyers, the Lake Winni Team’s business approach creates buying and selling strategies individually tailored to meet the needs and preferences of their clients. The Lake Winni Team consistently ranks within the top 3% of all Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices realtors.
Ronn’s greatest asset is his ability to build relationships and forge personal connections. A New Hampshire native, Ronn grew up in Exeter, summered in Alton Bay, was a camper at Kabeyun, and graduated from Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, NH. Prior to coming home to Wolfeboro, Ronn held senior non-profit fundraising positions in Atlanta and Boston (The Lovett School, Noble and Greenough School and the New England Conservatory) and was involved in Boston-based tech startups. Ronn currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Brewster Academy, and the Board of the New Hampshire Boat Museum. He is a past member of the Wolfeboro Heritage Commission, the Board of Trustees for the Beacon Hill Civic Association and Breakthrough Greater Boston. In 2018, Ronn was the recipient of the Brewster Academy’s David L. Carson Alumnus of the year award.
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B. Martha Cassidy P'17
TrusteeBiography
B. Martha Cassidy
Director—Investment Management, Abbott Capital Management
Martha has more than 30 years of private equity investment and fund management experience. At Abbott, she is primarily focused on the firm’s sourcing, due diligence and negotiations associated with secondary private equity investments. She is also a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining Abbott in 2013, Ms. Cassidy was a Managing Director at Capital Dynamics, Inc. where she developed and managed the firm’s secondary business ultimately raising the firm’s first institutional secondary private equity fund in 2009. She also worked at Overture Capital Partners, Madison Investment Partners, CCMP (formerly Chemical Venture Partners), and Mid Ocean Partners (formerly Bankers Trust private equity business)where she was among the first female partners in the private equity industry. She gained operating experience as executive management for a private equity backed middle market manufacturing company. She also worked for the McNeil Division (Tylenol products) of Johnson & Johnson in sales management after college.
Martha Cassidy has served as director of public and private companies spanning many industries over many cycles. Martha has served on 14 boards since 1990 as part of her responsibilities as an investor or as a partner in private equity firms owning these companies. She has deep experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, restructurings, executive management development and strategic planning used to achieve growth and increase shareholder value.
Martha earned an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School in finance and marketing and has a BA, magna cum laude, from Wellesley College. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Brewster Academy and the Wellesley Business Leadership Council. Martha lives in New York City with her wife Susan and Sugar, a wire fox terrier. They have two daughters including Clare (BA ’17) who attends George Washington University.
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J. Scott Curvey
TrusteeBiography
Scott Curvey has a lengthy connection to the Lakes Region area as a summer resident of Moultonborough, New Hampshire and joined the Board in 2021. Scott’s far-reaching board experience includes his present role as Treasurer of The Lionheart Foundation and former Treasurer of the Bald Peak Land Company as well as previous Director positions of Linear Air, VideSante Pharmaceuticals and Process Unity.
Scott is a graduate of Lehigh University with a BS in Economics. He is currently a private/venture investor and a member of Blu Ventures, based in Washington, D.C. The majority of Mr. Curvey’s professional career was spent in the healthcare industry working at Harvard Community Health Care, Boston Children’s Hospital and Hill Holiday Exhibition Services. Scott and his wife, Rebecca, spend the majority of the year in Naples, Florida and are ardent golfers and grateful travelers.
Scott fortifies the legacy of the Curvey family on Brewster’s board, joining his father James C. Curvey who has served as a Board Member since 2014.
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Dr. George Dohrmann, III P'05, '12
TrusteeBiography
Dr. George Dorhmann III and wife Helen Morrison Dorhmann live in Chicago and are the parents of George IV '05 and Geoffrey '12. George is a neurosurgeon on the faculty of the University of Chicago Medical Center and the Brain Research Institute. George received his surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and his neurological training at the Institute of Neurology, London, England and Yale University School of Medicine. He serves on the editorial boards of various medical journals, both national and international, including, Surgical Neurology, Spinal Cord and Medical Principles and Practice, and he is an editor of Neurological Research. George has published more than 200 books and articles. He represents the United States at the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies based in Geneva, Switzerland. George and his colleague, Dr. Jonathan Rubin, founded the field of ultrasound imaging during surgery. He is active in civic and charitable organizations and is establishing science classrooms and laboratories in elementary schools to help students develop an interest in science at an early age. George is on the governing board of the Chicago Symphony orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and is a member of the board of the Marine Military Academy.
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Karen W. Fix P'11, '13
TrusteeBiography
Karen Fix and husband Bob Fix live in Chicago and are the parents of Brewster graduates Will, Class of 2011, and Keenan, Class of 2013. Karen joined the board of trustees as president of the Parents’ Association and currently serves as chair of the education and student life committee. Understanding the health and well being of children has been a 30-year passion for Karen. Before having children, she taught pre-school and elementary school-age students in a private school in Winnetka, Illinois. After teaching, she began her own painting and design business, Spruce. Karen graduated from the College of Santa Fe with a B.A. in studio arts and biology.
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