James Sherwin

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James T. Sherwin is a chess International Master and corporate executive.

In chess, he tied for third in the US Chess Championship four times. He was Intercollegiate Champion and New York State Champion in 1951 and US Speed Champion in 1956-57 and 1959-60. He is a previous president of the American Chess Foundation.

Sherwin attended Stuyvesant High School, Columbia College and Columbia Law School, graduating in 1956. He became an attorney at a New York law firm and then a corporate executive at GAF Corporation, Triangle Industries and again at GAF Corporation as Vice Chairman from 1985 to 1990.

While at GAF in 1988, he was indicted for stock market manipulation.^[1] He was convicted after three trials,^[2] but the conviction was overturned,^[3] ruled as "dismissed with prejudice".^[4]

In 1991 Mr. Sherwin was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hunter Douglas N.V., a Dutch multinational company, in which capacity he served until 1999. As of 2007, he is a director of that company, and lives with his wife in Bath, England.