Himes top 10 contributors

1. Robert, John and Marilyn Clements of Stamford, $18,400
2. Stephen and Susan Mandel of Greenwich, $15,300
3. Charles and Susan Harris of Darien, $13,800
4. Edmond and Margaret Kavounas of San Francisco, $13,800
5. Lawrence and Mary Ann Tucker of Greenwich, $13,800
6. Eugene and Carol Waggaman of Stamford, $13,800
7. Michael and Anna Horvath of Hanover, N.H., $11,500
8. Kevin and Keri Cameron of Greenwich, $11,200
9. Maria, Christopher and Katrina Allwin of Greenwich, $10,200
10. Robert and Susan Evans of Greenwich, $10,200

*Himes has collected $4,600 or more from 123 contributors. Of those, 28 individuals gave the maximum $6,900 allowed for convention, primary and general election purposes.

1. Robert Clements, now retired, and son John are partners in Tara Investment Partners LLC. The elder Clements has a storied career in building and running insurance industry firms. As president of brokers Marsh & McLennan in 1984, Clements helped create two of the largest excess liability insurers, ACE and XL Capital that focused on the property catastrophe reinsurance market.
2. Ste Mandel founded in 1997 Lone Pine Capital LLC, an $8 billion hedge fund that has returned over 25 percent annually ever since its inception in 1997. Prior to 1997,

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   Mandel was managing director and consumer analyst at Tiger Management Corp., and was a mass-market retailing analyst at Goldman Sachs from 1984 to 1990. Mandel graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978. He is a trustee of Teach for America and is founder of Lone Pine Foundation, whose mission is to help children and families in the greater New York City area.
3. Charles Harris is co-founder and executive partner of SeaChange Capital Partners, which connects wealthy donors with high-performing nonprofits looking for capital growth. Harris retired from Goldman Sachs in 2002, where he was a partner and managing director. He serves as a director of the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc. and was also a member of the board of trustees of New Canaan Country School.
4. Edmond Kavounas is co-founder and president of Rockwood Capital Corp., a real estate investment company with offices in San Francisco and Greenwich, Conn. The hedge fund has been investing equity capital on behalf of pension funds, endowments, foundations and wealthy individuals since 1995. From 1980 until 1995, Kavounas was a partner in Rockwood's predecessor, an advisory firm, which invested on behalf of a small group of wealthy international families. Prior to that, he held senior management positions with Mobil Corp.'s real estate group.
5. Lawrence C. Tucker has been a general partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., since 1979. He co-founded the company's private equity funds. Tucker has more than four decades of financing experience including serving as a director of MCI WorldCom. He was one of 10 former directors who agreed in 2004 to pay $54 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by shareholders who lost billions of dollars when the telecommunications giant filed for bankruptcy in 2002 after revealing it had falsified its books to appear profitable. None of the directors directly participated in the accounting fraud.
6. Eugene Waggaman is president of Advantage America Paperboard, which he started in 2004 Waggaman is a past chairman of the board of Domus, a Stamford charity that operates charter schools, residential services and community programs for vulnerable youth. He is also a former president of the Interfaith Council of Southwestern Connecticut.
7. Michael Horvath, an entrepreneur at Strova Inc., was a research scholar and adjunct Associate Professor of Business Administration at Dartmouth University's Tuck School of Business. In 1989, he co-founded the Economics Resource Group, an economic consulting firm, and later co-founded Kana Software, Inc. From 2001 to 2005, he was chief financial officer of GlycoFi, Inc.
8. Kevin Cameron, 42, served as chief executive officer of HLTH Corp. from October 2004 until February when he went on medical leave. He served in various positions within the company and its predecessor since 2000. Prior to that, he was managing director of the Health Care Investment Banking Group of UBS and also had various positions in Investment Banking at Citigroup.
9. Maria Allwin is the wife of James M. Allwin, the founder and chief executive officer of Aetos Capital, who died of cancer in October 2007. He was 54. Christopher and Katrina are two of their children. Allwin, a 1974 graduate of Yale University, founded Aetos, an investment management firm, in 1999. Prior to that, he was head of the investment management businesses of Morgan Stanley. He was also a board member of Communities in Schools, the nation's largest stay-in-school program, acting as chairman for 11 of those years, and served on the boards of The Alliance for Youth and the National Mentoring Partnership.
10. Robert Evans is chairman of Crane Co., a business that his father acquired in 1959 after a bitter proxy fight. The elder Evans, who died in 1997, was known as a master of mergers and acquisitions. An obituary in the New York Times noted that Evans even battled in the boardroom with his sons. In 1994, he backed a leveraged buyout of Crane to keep his son from taking control of the company. The board, however, sided with the son and the senior Evans sold what was left of his shares back to the company.

-- PETER URBAN