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J. Alec Merriam
President, Jaguar Properties Corp.
Executive Vice President, Crowley Maritime Corp. (Retired)
Alec Merriam is currently the president and owner of Jaguar Properties Corp., which owns commercial real estate properties in Texas and owns and operates a wine warehouse and logistics business in Sonoma, Ca. Previously, he was Executive Vice President and CFO of Crowley Maritime Corp., a San Francisco based international shipping and logistics business. Before moving to the Bay Area in 1972, he was Assistant Controller of Northern Natural Gas Co. in Omaha. He was educated at Princeton University and the Harvard Business School. He is a Trustee of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where he has served on the Building Committee for the new deYoung Museum, the Executive Committee, and as Chairman of the Acquisition Committee. He also served on the board of the St. Francis Hospital Foundation as Chairman and The Fort Mason Foundation as Vice Chairman. For 40 years, Alec and his wife Gail have had a keen interest in the Maya civilization, traveling to Mexico and Guatemala many times, attending archaeological symposiums, building a library of books on the Maya, and collecting Maya art. They have also traveled to many other archaeological sites throughout the world such as Machu Picchu, Petra, Ephesus and Angkor Wat and visited Global Heritage Fund’s sites of Cyrene, Libya, and, of course, Mirador.
