Douglas C. Grissom ’89 was appointed to the Board of Trustees in 2015. He is a senior advisor at Madison Dearborn Partners ("MDP"). Prior to joining MDP, he was with Bain Capital in private equity, McKinsey & Company, and Goldman Sachs. At MDP, he serves on the Boards of Directors of CoVant Technologies II and Fleet Complete. He was formerly on the boards of @stake, Aderant, Asurion, BlueCat Networks, Cbeyond, Fieldglass, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, Intelsat, LGS Innovations, Lightspeed Systems, LinQuest Corporation and Neoworld.

Outside of MDP, Grissom is a board member at Churchill Downs, Endeavor Louisville, Harvard Business School Fund Council, James Graham Brown Foundation, Louisville Collegiate School, and METROsquash.

Since graduating from Amherst, Grissom has served as co-chair of the College's Promise campaign, chair of the College’s Lives of Consequence campaign in the Midwest Region, co-chair of the class of 1989’s 25th Reunion Lead Gift Committee, co-president and treasurer of the class of 1989 and associate agent for the Alumni Fund. 

While at Amherst, Grissom majored in European studies and German, graduating magna cum laude. He was a four-year member of the squash team and participated in student government, serving on the College Council and the Student Alumni Association. He earned an MBA at Harvard in 1993

In recognition of his many years of dedication, the College awarded him its Medal for Eminent Service in 2014.