RCDS is pleased to welcome new additions to the School’s Alumni Executive Board. The Rye Country Day Alumni Executive Board Committee acts as an ambassador of the School to the broader alumni community. Members preserve, encourage and stimulate loyalty and support for Rye Country Day School as a whole, foster strong relationships between the School and its alumni, and promote interaction with the School through alumni participation in activities and philanthropic support.

Ryan Davidson ’11
While pursuing his M.B.A. at The Wharton School, Ryan Davidson came up with the concept for the mobile app Impact Local. Drawing on his education as well as his experience as a hedge fund analyst, Ryan focused on developing an app that made it easy to do good right in one’s own neighborhood with just a few simple clicks. Impact Local highlights regional charities and provides users with the tools needed to research those organizations and reassure themselves that a donation is well directed. The app was launched in New York City in January 2023 and today includes approximately 40 organizations that can accept donations directly through the app and another 1,000 that require users to take one additional step to donate by going to the organization’s website.

Jeffery Grasso, Jr. ’12
Jeff Grasso Jr. is an Investment Banking Associate specializing in Real Estate, Gaming & Lodging at Bank of America. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Union College. Jeff graduated from Rye Country Day School in 2012, where he was a captain of the Varsity Baseball Team and a key member of the NYSAIS Championship-winning Varsity Basketball teams in 2009 and 2010. His father, Jeff Grasso Sr., owns Grasso Development Corp, a real estate development company, and his mother, Margaret Grasso, is a real estate broker at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. His sisters, Jessica (RCDS ‘14) and Juliette (RCDS ‘20), work at Tiger Global and Morgan Stanley, respectively.

Kenji Hashimoto ’99
Following his master’s program in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University, Kenji Hashimoto began his career at Intel Corporation as a Senior Test R&D Engineer. He soon moved to Silicon Valley for a position at Zazzle, where he was focused on uniting art and technology to power the online customization of physical products. This led Kenji to found his start-up, Indivio, which allowed marketers to customize their digital video ads. In December 2021, Indivio was acquired by Israeli-based tech company Cloudinary. Today Kenji and his team work with industries from retail and e-commerce to travel and hospitality and assist in marketing initiatives for brands such as Nintendo, Peloton, Levi’s, and NBC. 

Cynthia Luo ’14
At RCDS, Cynthia Luo enjoyed singing with the WildScats, fencing, dancing with the Cedar Street Dance Company, and serving as a Peer Leader. She then attended Harvard College before entering the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Cynthia is now living in Los Angeles and working as a resident emergency medicine physician at Harbor-UCLA. She recently got married in upstate New York, with her sister Kasey ’17 serving as the maid of honor. 

Additionally, the Alumni Executive Board is excited to have two alumni return to serve another term on the committee. 

Melanie Baevsky Bevinick '07 
Melanie Baevsky Bevinick currently leads DoorDash's Enterprise & MidMarket Partnerships Team, a group focused on structuring and renegotiating partnerships with the nation's largest restaurants. She previously led Digital Partnerships at NBCU, working directly with Snapchat, Apple, YouTube, and others. Prior to NBCU, Melanie was a founding member of Pinterest's New York office, where she led Retail Partnerships on the East Coast, and Twitter's New York office, where she joined as the company's first Account Coordinator on the U.S. Sales team. At Twitter, Melanie moved on to further build and specialize within the Tech vertical as a Senior Account Manager working with large agencies and clients, including Microsoft, LG, and General Electric. She received her bachelor's degree at Cornell University. 

Daniel Wallance '00 
Daniel Wallance is a cybersecurity consultant having worked in the United States, Middle East, and Europe for global corporations. He graduated from M.I.T. where he was a Fellow in the System Design & Management Program, jointly operated by the Sloan School of Management and the M.I.T. School of Engineering. Daniel also earned a master's degree from Harvard Business School. Prior to M.I.T., Daniel was the operations director at a boutique investment firm where he designed the firm’s business systems and processes, including redundant and secure enterprise-wide IT systems.