Tribute Dinner 2026
Wednesday, November 18th · 6:30 PM
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Please Join Us As We Celebrate Our Honorees
HONORING OUR SUPPORTERS
THOMAS JASPER
Tom Jasper is Managing Partner at Manursing Partners LLC. He was instrumental in creating the foundations for today’s $800+ trillion derivatives market, among other successes, during his 40+ year career on Wall Street. A business creator and innovator throughout his career, Jasper was a managing director at Salomon Brothers, where he established and led its interest rate swap business. While at Salomon, he founded and co-chaired the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA). Jasper went on to become chief executive of Primus Guaranty Ltd., a highly innovative credit default swap business. Tom’s book — Wall Street Maverick: Musings on a Career of Innovation, Derivatives, Credit, and Risk — releases in September. It is as much the story of his contributions to derivatives, swaps, and credit markets as it is the story of a career defined by adaptability, curiosity, and a willingness to operate on the edge. Wall Street Maverick is a front-row account of how one modern financial market was built, told by a man who helped build it. Tom serves on several Blackstone Credit and Insurance (BXCI) Fund boards, and continues to give back to his community. He and his wife, Alexis, live in Greenwich, Connecticut, and are members of Christ Church, Rye.
JIM & ELAINE LUTHY BRENNAN
COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
M. SCOTT PEELER
Scott is a Senior Partner at ArentFox Schiff LLP and has served on the firm’s elected Executive Committee since 2019. He helped lead the successful merger between Arent Fox and Schiff Hardin to form one of the country’s largest law firms by revenue. He is the co-head of the firm’s Government Enforcement and White Collar Practice Group and led the New York Complex Litigation Department for the past nine years. Early in his career, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. A native North Carolinian, Scott is a passionate alumnus of the University of North Carolina (BA ’93 and JD ’97) and serves as an adjunct professor at the UNC Law School, teaching an advanced seminar on white collar law and compliance to second- and third-year law students. He has served on numerous UNC boards and councils, has mentored undergraduate and law school students, and has endowed several scholarship funds, awards, and projects at the university. For ten years he served on the vestry of the Episcopal Parish of Calvary-St. George’s in New York City, many of those years as Warden. He helped manage a multi-million dollar budget and preserved two historic churches for future generations. He and his wife, Diana (also a “double Tar Heel” UNC undergraduate and law school alumna), live in New York City.
CHRIS MANN
Christopher Mann has spent more than 35 years at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, more than 25 of them as a partner, and also serves as an operating partner and chair of the senior advisory board of Zero Infinity Partners, a venture capital fund. Chris is a trustee and officer of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Anglican Communion Fund, and he has also served on the Diocesan Canons Committee and in a leadership capacity on the Vestry of three parishes in the Diocese of New York: Grace Church in Manhattan; St. Peter’s Lithgow, in Millbrook; and Trinity Church NYC. In addition to his current roles at Sullivan & Cromwell and Zero Infinity Partners, Chris is an M.Div. student at Harvard Divinity School. Chris and his wife, Claire, live in Millbrook, New York.
* Paying by Wire Transfer? Please contact us for more information at episcopalcharities@dioceseny.org or 212-316-7575
Benefactor Table $100,000
3 Premier Tables for 10;
Feature print and live program recognition
Builder Table $50,000
2 Premium Tables for 10;
Print and live program recognition
Underwriter Table $25,000
1 Prime Table for 10;
Print program recognition
Patron Table $12,000
1 Preferred table for 10;
Print program recognition
Sustainer Table $8,000
1 Table for 10;
Print program recognition
Partner Tickets $5,000
2 Prime Tickets;
Print program recognition
Supporter Ticket $2,500
1 Preferred Ticket
Donor Ticket $800
1 Ticket
Young Professional $450
Young Professional
Clergy Ticket $400
1 Clergy Ticket
Clergy Table $4,000
Clergy Table for 10
* Paying by Wire Transfer? Please contact us for more information at episcopalcharities@dioceseny.org or 212-316-7575
Our Honorary Co-Chairs
WOLCOTT B DUNHAM JR.
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
THE REV. TERENCE ELSBERRY
Christ Church Greenwich
This year donations for the Tribute Dinner may be directed, at the donor’s discretion, to a new endowment being formed to honor our founders, who we will be celebrating at the dinner. The new endowment, called The Founders Endowment, will provide perpetual support for grant-making.
MOMENTS FROM THE
2025 ANNUAL TRIBUTE DINNER
Photography: Kara Flannery
