Laird Scott Townsend Reed

Laird Scott Townsend Reed "is a managing director of the Détente Group, a merchant bank in McLean, Va., for which he oversees financing and acquisitions of companies involved in government contracting. He graduated from Princeton and has a master’s degree in economics and politics from Oxford and an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia.

"His mother is an architectual historian and an antiques appraiser; she is also the secretary of the board of the Decorative Arts Trust in Philadelphia. His father owned The Goochland Gazette and other Virginia weeklies, and was a real estate developer there; he was also on the board of the Environmental Defense Fund."

He married Joy de Menil in 2007.