George l. (Chuck) Farr

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'George Chuck Farr, chairman of Muirhead Holdings, LLC, a private equity firm in Greenwich, Connecticut, former vice chairman of American Express from 1995-1998 and director and chairman of the share holders committee during his 27-year with McKinsey and Company.

Farr has been a longtime resident of Greenwich. The first American to join the Board of Directors of Swiss Reinsurance Company in Zurich, Farr chaired the Nomination Committee. In addition, he was a member of the Board of Directors for Misys, London.

Farr was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the IRS Oversight Committee in 1999. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Business Administration from University of Michigan and served on the visiting committee and corporate advisory board for the Ross School of Business. He was a born in Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in Detroit, Michigan.