Kevin Mandery Cameron, loving father, husband, son, uncle, friend and master negotiator, died peacefully at home in Old Greenwich, Connecticut on Friday, February 5, 2021.
Born to Willam and Peggy Cameron on June 7, 1966 in Seattle, Washington. Kevin attended Lakeside School, class of 1984, where he participated in cross country, wrestling, football (briefly), and his first love, crew. That summer after graduation, he was selected to the US Junior National Team and rowed on the eight at the Junior World Championships in Sweden. He went on to row varsity crew at Harvard College for the legendary coach Harry Parker.
Kevin graduated from Harvard in 1988 with a degree in economics. He spent a year on a “world tour” before beginning a career in investment banking in New York City at Smith Barney. It is there that he met Keri. They married in the summer of 1998 in Seattle, Washington at his parents’ home on Lake Washington.
After a decade of helping build one of the most successful Health Care banking groups in the industry, in 2001 he left investment banking to work as a senior executive at WebMD. He was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2002, and following a successful stem cell transplant at The City of Hope in Los Angeles, he returned to work. Kevin was named CEO of WebMD in 2004 and joined the Board of Directors.
Kevin and family vacationed often with friends in Mount Snow, Vermont, Kiawah Island, South Carolina and the Big Island of Hawaii. He obtained his pilot’s license in 2008 and took anyone who was willing up in his plane.
As a consequence of his diagnosis, Kevin became an expert in navigating the often confusing world of clinical care and insurance coverage. After retiring from professional life he spent much of his time working with others who were unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with cancer. He shared his hard won wisdom broadly and tirelessly and became an active supporter and generous donor of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. At the time of his death, Kevin was working on a book about remaining resilient despite the physical and emotional pain of cancer.
Kevin is survived by his equally tenacious wife, Keri, two amazing daughters, Nell and Jane, his parents William and Peggy Cameron, sisters, Karen and Kim, brothers-in-law, Paul and Dana Pabst (Trumbull, CT) and Pat Shanahan (Seattle, WA), nieces Kayla, Lilly, Payton and Molly, nephews, Will and Jack, and a plethora of friends.
A memorial service will be held this summer in Seattle, Washington followed by a Celebration of Life In Old Greenwich, Connecticut. A fund in Kevin’s honor will be announced later this year.
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