Jason Fox
Jason Fox
Jason earned letters in four sports at Avon High, winning four letters in soccer, two in basketball, two in baseball and one in track and field. He played on three Avon High soccer teams that won state championships (1987, 1988, 1989) and one team that finished second in Class M (1990). The 1988 team finished 20-0 and was ranked No. 2 in the nation in the National Soccer Coaches Association final poll. It is the only Avon Boys soccer team to finish the season unbeaten and untied. Twice, Jason was named All-State and All-New England in 1989 and 1990. In 1990, he was named the state soccer player of the year by the Hartford Courant and the Connecticut Soccer Coaches Association along with being named to Parade Magazine’s All-American soccer team. Jason scored 57 goals at Avon, which is currently the third most in team history. He still holds the team record for most goals in a single season by a sophomore with 15 in 1988. He also played with the Oakwood Soccer Club in Glastonbury that won national indoor soccer titles in both 1989 and 1991. Jason was the MVP of the 1991 tournament and member of the All-Tournament team. Jason was a member of Avon’s outdoor track and field team that won a Class S championship in 1991. He was part of Avon’s 4x100 meter relay team that won a North Central Connecticut Conference (NCCC) and Class S championship. He played soccer in college for Notre Dame for four years. He was captain of the 1994 Irish squad and helped lead the Irish to the Midwest Collegiate Conference title as well as NCAA Division I tournament berths in 1993 and 1994. In his 74-game career with Notre Dame, he scored 10 goals and had nine assists. Jason graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering/Environmental Sciences in 1995 and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2002. Today, Jason is Chief Executive Officer of W. P. Carey and is a member of the company’s Board of Directors. W. P. Carey is one of the largest publicly traded diversified net lease REITs (real estate investment trusts) that specializes in the acquisition of single-tenant properties in North America and Europe. Before joining W. P. Carey in 2002, he worked at the Spectrem Group, a consulting and M&A advisory firm in San Francisco. Prior to Spectrem, he spent two years teaching mathematics and physics at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. He is also a member of the U.S. Soccer Foundation’s Board of Directors.