Karl Suerig received a BS from Queens College in Chemistry and Mathematics, and an MD from NYU Bellevue Medical Center. After Internship and Residency at Greenwich Hospital, he graduated from the Aerospace Medical Center and became a Naval Flight Surgeon. He was involved with electronics at NASA in Houston, Texas. This led to his part in Cardiovascular Associates while practicing medicine in Greenwich. His involvement was in the Catheterization Laboratory and with pacemakers, implanting the first pacemaker in Spain. He then joined the original Emergency Physicians at the Greenwich Emergency Room from which he recently retired after 35 years. During those years, he also did construction and developing as the President of Ryewood Farms Ltd. He has designed several gardens and buildings and, in retirement, is enjoying woodworking and construction.

Florence Suerig began her professional career as an interior designer and builder of homes.

After her son Michael died at the beginning of the AIDS pandemic, she and her husband Karl Suerig, a doctor in their community, decided to work toward helping survivors of the disease and to raise funds toward finding a cure. To this end, they founded the RED RIBBON FOUNDATION (originally called Jazz for AIDS). With the help of friends and, later, a hard-working board, they have endeavored to raise awareness of AIDS and to raise funds in Greenwich and surrounding communities.

After the foundation was underway, Florence resumed her artistic work first as an abstract quilt-maker and more recently sculpting in clay. She has two children, and her husband has three; between them they have fourteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. They reside in Greenwich.