Investment Executive, Philanthropist Chuck Davis Will Deliver 2025 Commencement Address
Chuck Davis, founder, chairman, and co–chief executive officer of Stone Point Capital, an investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, will deliver the 2025 Commencement address at Middlebury College on May 25.
Davis and his wife, Marna Olsen Davis, are cofounders and co-chairs of the Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation, an organization focused on a rare liver cancer that primarily occurs in adolescents and young adults. The foundation carries on the legacy of their son, Tucker, one of the foundation’s cofounders, who died of fibrolamellar cancer at age 28.
The Davises are also cofounders of the Chuck and Marna Davis Foundation—a Vermont-focused foundation that supports numerous educational and other worthy causes. The two will receive honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees at Commencement.
Before joining Stone Point in 1998, Chuck Davis worked for Goldman Sachs for 23 years, serving as head of investment banking services worldwide, cohead of the Americas Group, head of the Financial Services Industry Group, a member of the International Executive Committee, and a general partner.
A Burlington, Vermont, native, Davis attended Middlebury College for two years before transferring to the University of Vermont where he was a two-sport All-Conference athlete and an inductee into the UVM Athletic Hall of Fame. After graduating, Davis continued to support UVM, providing funding for the Dudley H. Davis Center and serving as a university trustee from 1996 to 2002.
Davis has backed many Vermont businesses including Beta Technologies, the South Burlington, Vermont-based electric aircraft company where he serves as chairman.
He is a member of the board of directors of AXIS Capital Holdings Limited and the Progressive Corporation and a former chairman and former lead director of the Hershey Company Board of Directors. In 2018, Davis was selected as one of the Financial Times’s “2018 Outstanding Directors.”
Marna Davis is an active member of her local community, including at Common Cause, as an ESL teacher, as a docent at the Museum of the City of New York, and at her sons’ schools. She was an active fundraiser for “Sail to Prevail,” an adaptive sailing program for disabled adults and children in Newport, Rhode Island, and served on the board of the Greenwich Adult Day Care Center. She serves on the board of directors for the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont.
Middlebury will also present honorary degrees to the following individuals at Commencement.
Heather McGhee, policy advocate and author of The New York Times best-selling book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. She is the chair of the board of Color of Change, the country’s largest online racial justice organization, and volunteers for numerous other boards in the fields of philanthropy and social justice. McGhee graduated from Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at Commencement.
Dario Robleto is an American artist, researcher, writer, and filmmaker based in Houston, Texas. Throughout his career, Robleto has sought to cultivate rigorous, mutually transformative interactions between the arts, humanities, and sciences. His research-driven practice results in intricately handcrafted objects that reflect his exploration of music, popular culture, science, war, and American history. Robleto will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at Commencement.