{"id":37256,"date":"2010-10-28T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T16:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=37256"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:34:21","slug":"forde-trustee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/10\/28\/forde-trustee\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Forde &#039;75 appointed to Board of Trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/10\/batestrustees10_rich-forde_web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/10\/batestrustees10_rich-forde_web-214x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Richard Forde\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bates College President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has announced the    appointment of Richard H. Forde &#8217;75\u00a0 as one of five new members of the   college&#8217;s  Board of Trustees.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Forde, of Simsbury, Conn., is chief investment officer of the global health service company CIGNA Corp., conducting investing activities through CIGNA Investment Management (CIM), responsible for all of CIGNA&#8217;s invested assets, today approximating $18 billion. CIM invests in a range of asset classes including private placements, public instruments and real estate including equity and debt.<\/p>\n<p>He joined CIGNA in 1977 as a private placement analyst specializing in the healthcare, finance and technology sectors. His subsequent positions within CIGNA have included senior managing director of CIGNA&#8217;s portfolio and public securities division; president and chairman of the CIGNA mutual fund group and president of CIGNA International Investment Advisors, Ltd., responsible for all of CIGNA&#8217;s international investment activities.<\/p>\n<p>Forde is a Phi Beta Kappa economics graduate of Bates, and earned a master&#8217;s degree in management from Northwestern University. He is a chartered financial analyst and a member of the Hartford Society of Financial Analysts. He and his wife Theresa, formerly a senior vice president at Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., reside in Simsbury, Conn. Forde has four adult children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has announced the appointment of Richard H. Forde &#8217;75  as one of five new members of the college&#8217;s Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8840],"class_list":["post-37256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-bates-board-of-trustees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87403,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37256\/revisions\/87403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}