Harrison Bains

Harrison (Mac) Bains has had a long career in Banking and Corporate Finance, including Senior Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank, Senior Vice President and Treasurer of RJR Nabisco, and Acting Chief Financial Officer and Vice President and Treasurer of Bristol-Myers Squibb.  He has also served in leadership positions as a trustee or director on many for-profit and non-profit boards. These included:  the Mercer Funds, in roles that included Chair and Chair of the Audit Committee; The Bank of America Funds; two bio-tech companies, serving as Chair of the Audit Committees of both; The Park Avenue Armory, where he is a Trustee Emeritus after serving many years as Finance Committee Chair; the American Battlefield Trust; and the University of Redlands, where he served as Investment Committee Chair.  Mr. Bains holds a BA degree in Economics from the University of Redlands, an MBA in Finance from the University of California-Berkeley, and he attended the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.

After a working career in and near New York City, Mr. Bains now resides in Montecito with his wife, Leslie, where they are near their two children and two grandchildren, all of whom reside in Southern California.