Waring Partridge served as Managing Director at Ash Creek Capital Advisors. He created enterprises in management consulting, insurance, wireless communications and philanthropy. He is Public servant, inventor, art collector and blue water sailor. His Business affiliations included AT&T (where he was awarded 16 patents), as well as McKinsey & Co. Former chief of staff for two members of the US House of Representatives, Executive Assistant to the US Trade Representative and Acting US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce. He is Former Navy Officer. He was also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. He currently serves on several for-profit and not-for profit boards. He holds BA from Yale & JD from Catholic University Law School.