Stephen Martiros, Managing Partner
Leigh Pendleton, Communications Director
Sarah P. Schlesinger, Partner

 
Dwight B. Corning, Co-founder
Laird P. Pendleton, Co-founder and Chairman of the Wharton Global Family Alliance Advisory Board

CCC Alliance is the only consortium that is founded and run by families who share the experiences of the members. The CCC Alliance founders have generated, managed and grown their family’s wealth. They created their family offices and have managed the generational shifts, moved family enterprises into new areas of wealth creation while preserving existing wealth, and run venture capital and private equity funds. The founders are actively involved in their family’s charitable foundations, have raised children in an environment of wealth and responsibility and have dealt with the many complex challenges of working with one’s family.

If experience is the best teacher, CCC Alliance and its network of families provides the finest hands-on learning environment in the family arena. CCC Alliance exists so that families can help each other.

Stephen Martiros, Managing Partner of CCC Alliance
Stephen is the Managing Partner of CCC Alliance and has over 20 years experience in the financial services industry advising private families and family offices. He is a longtime counselor to members of the Pitcairn family, heirs of the PPG fortune and a co-founding family of the CCC Alliance. Stephen joined CCC Alliance in 2002 and led CCC Alliance to the “Family Office of the Year” award presented by Institutional Investor’s “Private Asset Management” magazine in 2004.

Stephen received his BS from Babson College and MBA from Babson Graduate School of Business and spent the first 8 years of his career at E.F. Hutton where he was awarded “Rookie of the Year” for the industry and at Alex Brown & Sons. Stephen has developed a deep understanding of the investment, technology, and service requirements of family offices, and is expert in financial analysis and the investment management process for private families. Today, Stephen participates on the Fidelity Family Office Service Group’s technology advisory board and serves on the investment committee for the Schott Foundation for Public Education.

Leigh Pendleton, Communications Director
Leigh supports the CCC Alliance member services and communications and is currently building a CCC multigenerational program. A graduate of Trinity College, Leigh is a member of the Cairnwood Cooperative Investment Committee and a member of the Cairnwood Cooperative Board.

Sarah P. Schlesinger, Partner
Sarah has over 9 years experience in the private wealth management industry. Prior to joining CCC, she worked as a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager for Mellon Private Asset Management. She is a graduate of Boston University and a participant in The New England School of Banking: Trust and Estate Planning Program, and sits on the Board of Overseers for Children's Hospital in Boston.

Dwight B. Corning, Co-founder
Barney is president of Corning Capital Corporation, the East Coast family office branch of the Corning family. After training as a portfolio manager with Excalibur Management in Boston, he served as a consultant and product director with IDC, a financial information services firm. Mr. Corning is a director of America Foundation, his family's charitable giving arm, and serves on the boards of several small venture firms. He is a graduate of Trinity College and Boston University's Graduate School of Management.

Laird P. Pendleton, Co-founder of CCC Alliance and Chairman of the Wharton Global Family Alliance Advisory Board
Laird is the co-founder and Principal of the Cairnwood Cooperative Corporation, a family office that manages the affairs of the Pitcairn family, with offices in Boston and Philadelphia. He is also active in the family's global venture capital activities. He is active on various corporate and charitable boards and is the President of The Glencairn Foundation, the family's charitable giving arm. He is a graduate of Lehigh University and the Babson Graduate School of Business where he was a Sorenson Merit Scholar.