Scheduled Speakers
Meetings are generally held the second Tuesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. at Whitby Castle, 330 Boston Post Rd. Rye, NY. However please check here for exact dates in case of a scheduling conflict at Whitby

Tuesday May 13

Roy J. Bostock, Private Investment Expert

Longtime Rye resident, Roy Bostock, worked in the advertising agency business for 38 years retiring in 2002.

During his career Bostock worked with scores of clients including Procter & Gamble, General Foods / Kraft, Mars, Burger King, Coca-Cola, Hardees, Pillsbury, General Mills, General Motors, Fiat, Amoco and Texaco. For much of his career he was involved with the strategic development and introductions of some of the most successful new products launched in the 1960’s, ‘70’s, 80’s, and ‘90’s.

In 2000, Bostock led the merger of DMB&B and the Leo Burnett Company in Chicago to form B|Com3, a private company, and the seventh largest global agency group. He became Chairman of B|Com3 at its inception. Following the acquisition of B|Com3 in 2002 by Publicis Groupe in Paris, Bostock retired from the advertising agency business. 

Bostock was named Chairman of Northwest Airlines following its emergence from bankruptcy in 2007 and helped engineer the merger of Northwest and Delta Airlines in 2008. Subsequent to the merger Bostock served as Vice Chairman of Delta. Bostock also served as Chairman of Yahoo! Inc. from 2008 to 2012. He served on the Morgan Stanley Board from 2005 to 2013. Today Bostock is Chairman of his own investment firm, Sealedge Investments, LLC, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Sealedge holds diversified private equity positions as well as other investments. He also chairs GID BIO, a startup cellular therapy company that has developed a nonsurgical outpatient treatment for osteoarthritis of the knee that will obviate the need in many cases for total knee replacement surgery. 

A member of Duke University’s Class of 1962 who attended the university on a football scholarship, Bostock competed in both football and baseball while earning an undergraduate degree in English with Phi Beta Kappa honors. Named the outstanding graduate of his class, Bostock also helped the 1960 Blue Devils gridiron squad win both an Atlantic Coast Conference title and the Cotton Bowl. 

In 1964 Bostock earned an MBA specializing in marketing from Harvard University. He is married to Merilee Huser Bostock. They have three grown children and live in Rye, New York.