Stephen Presser ’81

Stephen Presser ’81, of Red Hook, N.Y.; Mar. 26, of pancreatic cancer. He earned a law degree in 1984 from Harvard University. He joined Cohen, Weiss & Simon, LLP in 1987 and spent 11 years representing unions, with a particular focus on the North American airline and steel industries. In 1997, he joined KPS Special Situations Fund to advise on airline and other industry restructuring. There, and later at his own firm, Athena Advisory Group LLC, he represented the Airline Pilots Association and the broader airline labor force. He and his team developed a new financing strategy to compensate unionized pilots and other employees when airlines filed for bankruptcy. For the past 18 years, he worked as a founding partner at Monomoy Capital Partners, a market private equity firm specializing in manufacturing and consumer businesses.He is survived by his wife, Diane;
a daughter; son Michael ’14; his mother; a sister; and a brother.