The Cloud family carries significant sway in Hartford.
Adam Cloud is currently the city treasurer, overlooking Hartford’s finances, which have been on shaky ground for years. He was in office when Mayor Luke Bronin helped win a major long-term bailout for the city, which prevented Hartford from filing for potential bankruptcy. Adam has now won re-election multiple times, proving some staying power. He was also the first black man to serve as city treasurer.
But the real Cloud family power stems from the patriarch, Sandy Cloud Jr., a lawyer by trade who became the first black barrister to work at law firm Robinson+Cole. He also served two terms in the state senate, became an Aetna executive and chaired or served on the boards of UConn Health, the Connecticut Health Foundation, Eversource and MetroHartford Alliance.
Sandy Cloud is best known today as a developer. The Cloud Co. LLC is currently co-developer of a major overhaul of Hartford’s Westbrook Village, a site that is being demolished and turned into more than 400 rental housing units and homeownership opportunities and retail/commercial space in the city’s North End.
Sandy’s other son, Christopher Cloud, also works in the family business, is a lobbyist and partner at government relations firm Camilliere, Cloud & Kennedy, and was the former CEO and president of AMISTAD America Inc.