Lewis Polk Rutherfurd (born August 3, 1944) is an American-born financier who lives in Hong Kong. He was married to Janet Jennings Auchincloss, the half-sister of First Lady Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier from 1966 until her death in 1985. In 1989, he married Katharine duPont Sanger, the granddaughter of Lammot du Pont II.[1]
Lewis Polk Rutherfurd | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 3, 1944 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Harvard University |
| Employer(s) | Inter-Asia Venture Management, Ltd. |
| Spouses | Katharine duPont Sanger
(m. 1989; div. 1994) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Winthrop Rutherfurd (grandfather) Frank L. Polk (grandfather) Levi P. Morton (great-grandfather) |
Early life
editRutherfurd was born on August 3, 1944[2] to Alice Polk and Winthrop Rutherfurd, Jr. of New York and Fishers Island, former president of Coast Metals, a manufacturer of hard-surface metals in Little Ferry, New Jersey.[1] His grandfathers were Winthrop Rutherfurd and Frank L. Polk, Under Secretary of State in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet and named founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell,[3] and he is a great-grandson of Levi P. Morton, a Governor of New York who served as Vice-President of the United States under Benjamin Harrison.[4]
Rutherfurd attended Princeton University, graduating in 1966 with a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies, and later Harvard, where he earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business.[5]
Career
editIn 1989, Rutherfurd was a managing director of Royal Trust Enterprise Capital, a venture capital firm in Hong Kong.[1] He set up Inter-Asia Venture Management, Ltd, a venture capital firm, in Hong Kong in 1972, raising a $1 million for their first fund. They went on to complete 15 investments. In 1974, they expanded McDonald's into Hong Kong.[6]
As of March 2016, Rutherfurd was the co-founder and Managing Director of Inter-Asia Venture Management, Ltd. He was a former Governor and Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, an Advisory Board member of Princeton in Asia and a former trustee of Berkshire School. Rutherfurd is past Co-Chairman and executive committee member of the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association and acts as trustee of the Mary Wood Foundation.[5]
Personal life
editOn July 30, 1966, he married Janet Jennings Auchincloss (1945–1985), the daughter of stockbroker Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr. (1897–1976) and socialite Janet Norton Lee (1907–1989).[7] Auchincloss had two half-sisters from her mother's first marriage to stockbroker John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III, Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill, three half-siblings from her father's previous marriages: Hugh III (born 1927), Nina (born 1935), and Thomas (born 1937), and one younger brother born to her parents, James Lee Auchincloss (born 1947). After their marriage, the couple moved to Hong Kong, where she later founded an overseas chapter of the League of Women Voters. Before her death from cancer on March 13, 1985, they had three children: Lewis Stuyvesant Rutherfurd, Andrew Hugh Auchincloss Rutherfurd, and Alexandra Rutherfurd.[1]
On June 10, 1989, Rutherfurd married Katharine duPont Sanger. Sanger was the president of Windsurfing of Sanibel, a Florida sailboard and sports clothing shop, and graduated from Wheelock College. Her father was a Republican state senator and president pro tem in Delaware. Her stepfather was the retired president and founder of Laird and Company, an investment concern in Wilmington, and she was the granddaughter of Lammot du Pont II.[1] They divorced in 1994.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Staff (June 11, 1989). "Katharine duPont Sanger Marries Lewis Rutherfurd". The New York Times. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ^ New York, New York, Birth Index, 1910-1965
- ^ "RUTHERFURD, ALICE POLK". The New York Times. March 29, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
- ^ Staff (May 9, 1966). "Janet Jennings Auchincloss Betrothed". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ^ a b "Lewis Polk Rutherfurd". privateequity.thunderbird.edu. Thunderbird School of Global Management. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ^ Staff (March 15, 2013). "AVCJ at 25: Lewis Rutherfurd of Inter-Asia Venture Management". Asian Venture Capital Journal. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ^ Pottker, Jan (2002). Janet and Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Macmillan. p. 247. ISBN 9780312302818. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
- ^ Florida, Divorce Index, 1927-2001