W&L Welcomes New Trustee Kevin Batteh ’95, ’98L Batteh was sworn in as a trustee on Oct. 16.

Office of Communications and Public Affairs
October 16, 2026

Kevin K. Batteh ’95, ’98L joined the Washington and Lee University Board of Trustees on Oct. 16, at the board’s fall meeting in Lexington. He joined the board after fellow alumni elected him through a process led by the W&L Alumni Association’s Board of Directors, which invited all alumni to nominate and vote on a slate of candidates.

Batteh graduated from W&L with a bachelor’s degree in English and earned a Juris Doctor from the Washington and Lee School of Law. He is a partner and the general counsel at Delta Strategy Group, a leading regulatory strategy and government affairs firm in Washington, D.C.

Batteh has more than 25 years of experience in financial services law and policy. After law school, he began his career at a private practice firm before joining the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 2003. He later served as special counsel to the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, directing derivatives legislation and policy, and subsequently spent two years in London working for the United Kingdom’s financial regulator. Batteh joined Delta Strategy Group in 2014, where he advises asset managers, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, regulated exchanges, digital asset markets and Fortune 500 companies. He also serves as general counsel to the Commodity Markets Council.

As a W&L undergraduate student, Batteh was a member of the wrestling team, Sigma Chi fraternity and the Executive Committee of the Student Body. He also served as Interfraternity Council president and was a leader in the Outing Club. As a law student, he served as president of the Executive Committee.

As an alumnus, Batteh has supported W&L in a variety of volunteer roles, including as vice president and member of the Law Council, as a member of his law class reunion committee, as a co-chair and member of his undergraduate class reunion committee and as an alumni chapter secretary. He also serves as a board trustee at the Washington International School.

Batteh and his wife, Sarah Alkenbrack, reside in Washington, D.C. and have three children.