Banker named new trustee

Investment banker Lewis van Amerongen has been appointed the newest member of the Caltech Board of Trustees.

Van Amerongen has spent close to 35 years in the management buyout and merchant banking business. A private investor since 1994, he was a general partner of Gibbons, Green, Goodwin, and van Amerongen from 1970 to 1994.

His private investments include Lost Creek Land & Cattle, an 18,000-acre agricultural and cattle ranch located about 20 miles from the international airport in Denver, Colorado, and Erickson Air-Crane Inc. Erickson owns the type certificate for, and is the manufacturer of, the S-64 helicopter. Erickson also operates the largest fleet of S-64’s in the world, providing services for logging, aerial construction, and firefighting in North America, Europe, Korea, Malaysia, and Australia. Formerly the firm’s chairman and CEO, van Amerongen is currently chairman emeritus.

Both an all-American soccer player and all-Ivy lacrosse player at Princeton University, where he earned his BSE degree, van Amerongen also holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

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