Bob Pender

Personal: Married to Victoria Lawford. Three daughters (Alex, Caroline and Victoria), all out of college and launched. Living in Falls Church, Virginia.

Contact: robert.pender10@gmail.com

Professional: After graduation, kayaked a lot; worked for the Senate Ethics Committee, then White House Staff; Georgetown Law; energy project finance lawyer with global law firm (Hogan Lovells), left in 2010; pro bono counsel to Interim Haiti Recovery Commission; founded new company (Venture Global) developing two large infrastructure projects in Louisiana – very happy, caught and surfing an amazing set of waves….

Memory: Gratitude. I learned my life lessons there. But, also: skating for miles on the flooded, frozen Lemon Fair River; Pardon Tillinghast’s lectures on Oliver Cromwell; stair diving at Sig Ep; the Northern Lights. A transcendent dream.

Song: Purple Haze, turned way up, right before we jumped out of the car (amped) and skied the next slalom run at the Bowl.

• Bob Pender