Mark Berner

Mark Berner

Warden

Mark Berner serves as a consultant and advisor to several charitable foundations.  He is currently engaged in incubating a series of initiatives focusing on renewing the moral, intellectual and spiritual foundations of public culture. 

Previously, he was Managing Partner and Co-Founder of SDG Resources, L.P., an oil and gas company based in Texas and New Mexico.  For many years he managed hedge funds investing in distressed assets at the Credit Suisse First Boston and Turnberry Capital Management.  Prior to joining First Boston, Mark was a partner and senior member of the bankruptcy and restructuring group at Anderson Kill & Olick, a New York law firm.

He has served on the boards of several charities, foundations and companies; he served on the vestry of Calvary-St. George’s from 2001 to 2007.  Educated at Yale (BA, History), Oxford (MA, Philosophy and Theology) and Villanova (JD), he is married to Ashley Rogers Berner, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.  They have two children and live in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, NY.