Peterson Business Award Dinner

2026 Peterson Business Award Dinner

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Greenwich Hyatt Regency Hotel

HONORING

Scott Stuart, Co-Founder & Partner, Sageview Capital

PRESENTED BY

The Honorable Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut

About Honoree Scott Stuart

Scott Stuart is a Founding Partner of Sageview Capital. He is responsible for all aspects of Sageview’s business and sits on the firm’s Investment Committee and the Portfolio Committee.

Prior to founding Sageview Capital, Scott was at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) for 19 years. He joined KKR in 1986 in New York, became a partner in 1994, and he was responsible for the utilities and consumer products industry groups. He also served on KKR’s Investment Committee from its inception in 2000 until his departure in 2005. Before joining KKR, Scott worked at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc. in the mergers and acquisitions group.

Scott graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in English. He received an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Scott is on the Board of Trustees at Dartmouth and is the Chair of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Board of Trustees and Governing Trustees. Additionally, in 2021, Scott and his wife Lisa launched the Lisa & Scott Stuart Center for Adolescent & Young Adult Cancers at MSK with the goal of revolutionizing cancer treatment for people ages 15 to 39 and to meet their very specific and often unmet needs.

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About the Peterson Business Award Dinner

As the Library’s only major fundraiser, the dinner is vital to maintaining the quality and availability of offerings such as childhood literacy sessions, musical concerts, job search tools, technology training courses, and many other essential services provided free of charge to the community.

The Award was established in 1997 by the Library and the Peterson Foundation to “recognize and honor an individual whose innovative thinking, leadership, and sustained record of achievement has had a profound impact on the national and global economy, and whose words and deeds have demonstrated a commitment to intellectual freedom and open access to information.”

The Peterson Business Award is named in honor of Clementine Lockwood Peterson, whose 1992 bequest of $25 million made possible a new 32,000 square-foot wing at the Greenwich Library. Designed by renowned architect Cesar Pelli, this wing contains expanded business and music collections. Mrs. Peterson’s gift was made in memory of her son, Jonathan, and her husband, J. Whitney Peterson. The Peterson Business Award was conceived in order to celebrate Mrs. Peterson’s extraordinary generosity and to recognize outstanding business leadership.

For more information, contact Lisa Mandel at (203) 622-7957 or send an e-mail.