Jamie and Ethan Berg
Lenox Athenaeum Founders

Jamie Berg grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She attended Tufts University and after graduation, she worked as a personal fitness trainer at Harvard University, Lenard Fitness, Healthworks and the Mount Auburn Athletic Club. After cycling throughout the world with her husband in the year 2000, she returned to Cambridge and was a personal fitness trainer primarily serving the Harvard University community. She is currently teaching exercise classes at various clubs and resorts in the area. Jamie enjoys cooking, modern dance, bicycle touring, and her two children.

Ethan Berg grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts and attended the Honors College at the University of Michigan, graduating with a degree in cultural anthropology. While in school he built two businesses, “Destinations – Specialists in Alaskan Travel” and “The Michigan Watch Company”. Upon graduation, he joined Price Waterhouse and then joined The Monitor Group, in Cambridge, MA and worked closely with the founder, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. For seven years, Ethan consulted on and taught business strategy on behalf of Monitor to corporations including IBM, John Hancock, Otis Elevator, Carrier Air Conditioners, Boston Market, Canadian Trust, as well as to foreign governments and medium sized businesses in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Bermuda, and the Republic of Tatarstan. In 2000, he took a sabbatical from Monitor to bicycle with his wife Jamie throughout the world and during that time synthesized his Monitor strategy work with the investment philosophy of Benjamin Graham to create a style of investing which forms the core of his work as a value investor. Ethan enjoys sailing, bicycling, the Red Sox, classical music, reading and his two children.

Ethan and Jamie moved to Lenox in 2002. Inspired by their surroundings, they founded the Lenox Athenaeum, an institution devoted to learning, arts, ideas, gourmet foods, music, and more.