Roland Reynolds, trustee
College of the Atlantic is pleased to welcome Roland Reynolds to the COA Board of Trustees. Reynolds is a senior managing director at Industry Ventures, where he has spent the past 13 years helping build their venture capital platform. Today, the organization has over $5 billion in assets, which they invest on behalf of pension funds, endowments, foundations, and families.
Reynolds serves on the governing board of the National Cathedral School in Washington, DC, from which his daughter, India, graduated in 2020. He has previously served on the board of trustees of the Groton School, as well as on the foundation board of a community college in Richmond, Virginia, where he was born and raised.
After graduating from Groton, Reynolds attended Princeton University. After college, he worked for JP Morgan’s investment banking division in New York for several years before attending Harvard Business School. Upon graduation he entered the venture capital business, soon founding a venture capital fund of funds before merging with Industry Ventures in 2009.
Reynolds is excited to serve an active role in stewarding COA’s unique, interdisciplinary, experiential approach to education, he says.
“Over the past 50 years, COA has emerged a leader in American higher education with its unique focus on human ecology,” Reynolds says. “The COA experience is transformational, not only for students, but for the broader community of Mount Desert Island, and I am grateful to join an extraordinary group of trustees to help steward COA for the next 50 years and beyond.”
Reynolds first came to Mount Desert Island with his future wife in the summer of 1997 to stay with her family in their summer house in Southwest Harbor. The pair were married at St. Mary’s by the Sea in Northeast Harbor in August 2000. They are members of the Causeway Club in Southwest Harbor and the Pot & Kettle Club in Bar Harbor.
“25 years after first coming to MDI, it is hard for me to remember a time when the restorative power, intergenerational connection, and extraordinary beauty of Acadia National Park were not an integral part of my life,” Reynolds says.
Reynolds and his wife, Diana (Buchanan) Reynolds, have lived in Alexandria, Virginia for more than 20 years. Their daughter, India, is a junior at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York and their son, Samuel, will be joining his sister at Hamilton next year.
