Brooks Newmark

A steadfast philanthropist and social leader, Brooks Newmark has dedicated his career to building strong and healthy communities. Currently, Newmark divides his expertise across a broad swath of professional interests. In his home of Braintree, Exeter, he serves as the president of a Braintree Community Foundation, an organisation which supports local activists and residents carry out projects to improve local society. Newmark further dedicates his time to his work at Oxford College, where he researches for the Department of International Politics and International Relations. He also maintains a presence in the business sector by sitting on the board of directors for investment firms Telesis Management Ltd. and Apollo Alternative Investments MIP. As he moves forward in his career, Brooks Newmark intends to bring the skills gleaned from his academic and corporate career to bear in favour of his philanthropic projects and spark a blaze of positive social change in the greater community.

Though philanthropy would come to define the later years of his career, the first steps of Brooks Newmark’s professional journey veered towards business. He graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA in finance in 1984; at that point, he also held a BA in history from Harvard College and a research graduate in politics from Worcester College at Oxford. Shortly after receiving his MBA, Newmark accepted a position as a Vice President for the International Division of Shearson Lehman Brothers. Over the course of the next decade, Newmark took on a series of high-level leadership positions in the financial sector, including a Senior Partnership at the international private equity firm Apollo Management LP, before taking a seat on the directorial boards for investment firms Telesis Management Ltd and AAA MIP Limited in 2005 and 2006, respectively. He maintains both leadership positions to this day.