Sanford Cloud, Jr., Esq.    
Chairman and CEO       
The Cloud Company, LLC

Sanford Cloud, Jr., is the Chairman and CEO of The Cloud Company, LLC, a real estate development and business investment firm.  He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of The National Conference for Community and Justice, a human relations organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry and racism in America and promoting understanding among all races, religions, and culture.  

Mr. Cloud currently serves on the Board of Directors of Northeast Utilities, The Phoenix Companies, Inc., Ironwood Mezzanine Fund LP, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, The University of Connecticut Health Center, Metro Hartford Alliance, The Connecticut Health Foundation, and serves as its Chairman, and the Hartford Courant Foundation.

Mr. Cloud was a partner in the law firm of Robinson & Cole in Hartford, Connecticut.  Through much of the 1980s, he worked for Aetna Inc. as Vice President, Corporate Public Involvement and Executive Director of the Aetna Foundation. As Chair of the company’s Corporate Responsibility Investment Committee, he directed Aetna’s socially responsible investments.  Active in a range of philanthropic leadership organizations, Mr. Cloud served as Vice Chairperson and Board member of the Independent Sector, and led its Task Force on Accountability and Effectiveness of the Nonprofit Sector.  He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foundations.  Additionally, he served as an advisor of the Kellogg Foundation National Fellowship Program.

A former 2-term Connecticut State Senator, Mr. Cloud’s accomplishments included primary sponsorship of legislation creating the State’s first Department of Housing.  He also served as Chairman of the Planning and Development Committee and was a member of the Appropriations and Judiciary Committees.