Roland W. Betts ’68 B.A.
New York, New York
Elected Alumni Fellow in 1999 and appointed Senior Fellow in 2003 and Successor Trustee in 2005, Roland W. Betts is chairman of Chelsea Piers, L.P., which developed and operates the Chelsea Piers Sports Complex in New York City. He is founder and president of Silver Screen Management, Inc., which produced over ninety motion pictures with the Walt Disney Company. After graduating from Yale, Mr. Betts taught public school in Harlem. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1978 and practiced law for several years in the entertainment department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. From 1989 to 1998 Mr. Betts was a principal owner of the Texas Rangers. He is a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, the National Park Foundation, and Columbia Law School, and serves as the treasurer of the Kennedy Center. As a director of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation from 2001 to 2006, Mr. Betts assumed a leadership role in the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site.
