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Richard Baker Jennings of New York City and Quogue died on February 28. He was 72.
Mr. Jennings was born on November 26, 1943, fifteen minutes behind his twin brother, John, and grew up in New York City. He graduated magna cum laude and phi beta kappa from Yale University, where he was awarded the Corning Glass Works Traveling Fellowship. He earned a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School. From 1969 to 1986, he oversaw the real estate investment trust banking business at Goldman Sachs & Co. During his tenure at Goldman Sachs & Co. he also founded and managed the Mortgage Finance Group. From 1986 to 1989, he was managing director of real estate finance at Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. Mr. Jennings founded Realty Capital International LLC, an investment banking firm, in 1991. He served as the lead director for Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.; on the board of directors of National Retail Properties, Inc., European Investors’ International Property Fund, Terra Capital Partners and The Stillwater Insurance Group; and as a trustee of the National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction at NYU Medical Center.
He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Nancy Steeger Jennings; and his children, Anne Jennings Staebler, Sally Jennings and Victoria Jennings Diamond; sons-in-law, Ned Staebler and Robert Diamond; and grandchildren, Teddy and Jacob Staebler, and Charlotte and Eleanor Diamond; and siblings, Ellen Jennings Giusti and John Baker Jennings.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, March 10, at 4 p.m. at The River Club in Manhattan.
Memorial donations may be made to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Office of Development, 633 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, Attn.: Lauren Kelly.
on Mar 8, 2016