Carl Ferenbach

High Meadows Institute

Carl Ferenbach is Chairman & co-founder of High Meadows Foundation and High Meadows Fund. Mr. Ferenbach was a co-founder of Berkshire Partners LLC, a private equity investment firm based in Boston, MA. He was previously a Managing Director. Berkshire has managed nine private equity investment funds and the Stockbridge Fund with approximately $16.0 billion of capital. Mr. Ferenbach served as Chairman of the Board of English Welsh and Scottish Railway Ltd., US Can Corporation, and Crown Castle International Corporation. He also served as a director of other Berkshire portfolio companies.

Mr. Ferenbach received an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served in the US Marine Corps Reserve.

He and his wife, Judy, own High Meadows Associates, Inc. which operates farms in southern Vermont producing maple sugar products.