Biography
Pam Farr is a partner in Muirhead Holdings, a private equity firm in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her background includes service as chairman of Amerigives, a multimillion-dollar philanthropic outsourcing business, and 10 years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where she served a variety of Fortune 500 companies. As an entrepreneur, she founded and developed Banyan Homes, a real estate firm, and Best & Company, a manufacturer and retailer of children's clothing and accessories. She was also a member of the board of directors of Dresdner RCM Global and Capital Funds, based in San Francisco.
Farr devotes substantial time to community service and philanthropy, most significantly with the American Red Cross. She served as national chair of finance from 2004 to 2008, when she was appointed national chair of volunteers. In that capacity she was a member of the senior management team representing some 700,000 Red Cross volunteers at the national level. Prior to her work at ARC National Headquarters in Washington DC, she chaired the ARC board in Greenwich, and held many other leadership positions in that chapter.
In addition to her Red Cross volunteer work, Farr is currently on the board of directors of the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, California, and Theatre Forward in New York City. She was elected to the board of Yale School of Management Alumni Association (SOMAA) in 2011, serving as its president from 2014 to 2016, and served as co-president of the New York SOMAA Chapter from 2010 to 2013. She joined the YAA Board of Governors in 2016.
