This year’s honorary degree recipients include Grammy-winning opera singer Ryan Speedo Green, award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa, and trustee emeritus and philanthropist David J. Roux.
David J. Roux is a trustee emeritus with whom º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ and Maine share deep ties. A generous gift from Roux and his wife, Barbara, made possible the Roux Center for the Environment, which was completed in fall 2018. The Roux Center brings together faculty from across academic disciplines to encourage collaboration and creativity in the teaching and scholarship of the environment and further strengthens º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ’s position as a leader in this field of study. Roux’s philanthropy and significant impact on Maine is also evident in the launch of the Roux Institute, a collaboration with Northeastern University, and the establishment of The Roux Family Center for Genomics and Computational Biology at Jackson Labs in Bar Harbor, where he served as board chair. He has also served on the boards of the National Audubon Society, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Roux is a cofounder and chairman of BayPine Capital. He previously cofounded and was chairman, co-CEO and co-managing partner of Silver Lake, a global private equity firm focused on technology and technology-enabled investments. He was formerly chairman and CEO of Liberate Technologies, executive vice president at Oracle Corporation, and senior vice president at Lotus Development. A graduate of Harvard College, Roux earned an MBA at the Harvard Business School and an MPhil at King’s College, Cambridge University. Roux’s extensive family connections to the College include his parents, Donald Roux ’55 and Constance “Connie” Roux, who took classes at the College and was a sister of former Maine governor James B. Longley ’48, his brother James Roux ’81, sister Mary Roux Train ’91; brother-in-law Daniel Train ’91; and niece Moira Train ’21.
