Background: Evans began his career as the admissions director at the Williston-Northampton School, a private prep school, and six years later he took a post as associate head at the Carroll School outside Boston. He began to understand the unique challenges that face private schools, and took a post with the National Association of Independent Schools, where he served as a liaison with 35 state and regional affiliates of the organization.

At 32, Evans became the head of Cape Cod Academy, a “struggling little day school,” with an enrollment of 75 students, that was renting space on a year-to-year basis. When Evans stepped down in 2006, Cape Cod Academy was very highly regarded and had an enrollment of more than 400. It was operating from a campus of its own, and benefiting from a growing endowment.

Evans then joined RG175, where he served for eleven years, the last six as the firm’s president. He also served on the board of trustees of the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank for 22 years, retiring as vice-chair and lead director. He has served on many other boards, and is now President of the Harwich Conservation Trust.