Board of Managers
Landon Thorne has been active as a principal in international trade, energy efficiency and natural resource development, merchant banking, venture capital, corporate finance and the sponsorship of portfolio real estate investments for more than 30 years. He is currently Managing Director at Projects International.
Concurrent with his business career, Mr. Thorne served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, retiring in 2002 at the rank of Colonel with service in Vietnam, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He also had diplomatic assignment as a Reserve Military Attaché to Rome, Italy, and is conversant in several foreign languages. Mr. Thorne has held seats on the Boards of numerous businesses, governmental and charitable institutions to include Secretary of the Navy Marine Corps Reserve Policy Board, Trustee, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and Chair, Lowcountry (SC) Work Force Investment Board. He has written widely disseminated op-ed articles on topics related to international policy and business. Mr. Thorne is a graduate of Yale University.
He and his wife, Leslie, live on a sporting plantation in coastal South Carolina. Landon is an avid outdoors-man.
Landon is descended from Jonathan (GGG-GF) via Samuel (GG-GF), Edwin (G-GR), Landon (GF), Landon, Jr. (F).
Lineage Rep - William Line
Jeff Sloan is a Vice President and Client Advisor in the U.S. Philadelphia office of Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, a global investment bank with operations across the United States, Europe and Asia. Jeff joined Deutsche Bank in 2011 from Merrill Lynch, where he served as an Assistant Vice President and Senior Financial Advisor to select high net worth individuals. He has more than 19 years of experience in financial services managing individual, corporate, and institutional relationships.
Jeff maintains an exemplary level of professional certifications and has also served on the CFP® Curriculum Advisory Board for The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Jeff holds his B.S. in Finance and is a Certified Financial Planner™, a designation awarded by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. He is also a Chartered Financial Consultant, a designation awarded by The American College. Jeff resides with his wife, Tracey, and three sons in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Jeff is descended from Jonathan Thorne (GGG-GF) via William Thorne (GG-GF), Lydia Thorne Taylor (G-GM), Mildred Taylor Davison (GM) and Eleanor Davison Sloan (M).
John Titcomb is a founding member of the THR Board of Managers and has participated centrally in THR’s legal affairs and litigation strategy. He is a non-practicing attorney, and he serves as an officer, director, manager, or trustee of business entities in his family. He is a past president of a family foundation, was previously the head of a family motel business, and is an experienced angel and stock market investor. He has served on numerous start-up company boards, including two companies that he helped take public. He also has non-profit board experience.
John is a graduate of The Hotchkiss School, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School. He is married to Linde R. Behringer, and they have five grown children. Their main home is in Sammamish, WA, near Seattle, but they also have a residence in Porlezza, Italy and live part of every year there. Over the years they have also spent time in China, France, and Jordan. John is a world-ranked freestyle frisbee player, competing annually in tournaments in the US and Europe.
John is descended from Jonathan Thorne (GGG-GF), via Edwin Thorne (GG-GF), Chester Thorne (G-GF), Anita Thorne Corse Stone (GM), and Diana Colden (Corse) Titcomb (M). He was born in 1950.
Peter Thorne has been a business operator and investor for thirty years. With business partners, Bill Monaghan, and cousin, David Thorne, Peter bought, developed, and redeveloped properties in emerging neighborhoods of lower Manhattan and Boston. The group also started, built up, and sold financial and health oriented publishing businesses.
Starting in 2009 Peter has partnered with niece, Dune Thorne, to test and evolve a family office technology platform that enables efficient and effective tracking of actionable investment information. Peter served as a Trustee of the Hotchkiss School for ten years and has remained on the Investment Committee for its endowment. He currently serves on the Board of the Cambridge School of Weston and on its Investment Committee and on the Board of the Yale Club of Boston. Other Boards include Schepens Eye Research Institute, a Harvard Affiliate, the Boston Food Bank, and the Common Fund Capital Venture Capital Advisory Board.
Peter is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Business School. Peter and his wife, Katherine Gross, oversee the Charlotte Foundation that supports education reform initiatives primarily in urban public schools in Boston. It is named after Charlotte Thorne who co-founded and ran one of the first high schools for freed slaves in Alabama in the late 19th century.
Peter is descended from Jonathan (GGG-GF) via Samuel (GG-GF), Edwin (G-GR), Landon (GF), Edwin (F).
Dr. Oakleigh Thorne II, PhD is Founder and Honorary President of Thorne Nature Experience (formerly Thorne Ecological Institute) that conducts environmental education programs for children, i.e., “connects kids to nature.” Oak has been doing this for 60 years. The programs reach over 10,000 students annually in the greater Denver, Colorado area. In Thorne’s Summer Camp program, Oak teaches a course in Birds and Bird Banding to students ages 12 to 15.
in 1954. The film company produced over 800 educational film titles from 1954-1971 that were widely distributed to school systems across the USA and internationally. Thorne Ecological Institute helped found the Colorado Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), the Keystone Science Center, the Audubon Society of Greater Denver, the Colorado Chapter of the Sierra Club and what is now called the Our Colorado. Oak is a member of the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education (CAEE).
Oak purchased the famous Valley Ranch in northwest Wyoming (southwest of Cody) in 1969 and ran it until 1987. Valley was the oldest guest ranch in Wyoming, homesteaded in 1892. The ranch did not work out financially, and Oak returned to Boulder, Colorado in 1987 where he helped found and taught in the Environmental Studies Department at Naropa University. Oak is currently a member of the External Board of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, is on the Leadership Council for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and the Yale Alumni Schools Committee. He is also on the Advisory Board of the American Music Research Center (AMRC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which contains the archives for many famous musicians and composers, such as Glen Miller, Perry Como, Norman Lockwood, and Dave Grusin, as well as housing an extensive sheet music collection from the 1800s and 1900s.
Oak is descended from Jonathan (GG-GF) via Samuel (G-GF), Edwin (GF), Francis (F).
Dinah Bain is an IT professional doing support and development for mainframe storage software since 1998. She currently works part-time for Rocket Software, Inc. She worked for IBM in systems development from 1968 to 1980. She has held various volunteer board positions in the communities where she has lived.
Diana Bain is descended from Jonathan Thorne (GGG-GF), via Edwin Thorne (GG-GF), Chester Thorne (G-GF), Anita Thorne Corse Stone(GM), Nancy Lamb (Anita Thorne Corse) (M).
Bryn Matthews retired as President and CEO of the CTV Network affiliate television station in Ottawa, Canada. In the earlier years of his career he was a full-time Network Television producer and director, located primarily in Toronto, with production experience in the UK, France and the US.
He remains active in the Canadian entertainment industry as recent past Chair, and current Board member of a major private equity and development subsidiary of Bell Media. Bryn is the President of two Matthews’ family investment companies.
In recent years Bryn has been active on several Boards, including the Canadian Cultural Properties Review Board (GOC–Heritage Canada), the Michener Awards Foundation for journalistic excellence, the Toronto International Film Festival, the United Way of Ottawa, and President of the Canadian Club of Ottawa. He is past Chair of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and the Almonte General Hospital.
Bryn received a BA/BFA degree from Ithaca College, Ithaca NY, and attended the University of Aix Marseilles and La Sorbonne, Paris.
Bryn is married to Gaye Bennett. He has two children, Schuyler (Sky) a Distinguished Engineer with IBM at RTP NC, and Adam, an international banker based in Hong Kong.
Bryn’s brother is Victor Bruce, and Sister Mrs Harriet Thorne Cork.
BRYN Corse Matthews is descended from Jonathan (GG-GF), via Jonathan Jr. (G-GF), via Victor (GF), via Victoria (M).
Lineage Rep - William Line
Jim Taylor is retired from Kramer Electronics USA, the US office for Kramer Electronics, LTD, Jerusalem, Israel. Kramer is a leader in signal management solutions for the professional AV industry. Jim has a 42-year career in the AV industry primarily with the large screen display manufacturers. He was the first salesman at Advent which launched the large screen industry with the introduction of the VideoBeam 7’ consumer TV in 1975. This was followed by launching the consumer projector program at Mitsubishi in 1978, selling the Talaria professional projector at GE in 1984 and launching the ILA industrial projector program at Hughes-JVC in 1992.
Oakleigh Thorne founded, and serves as CEO of, Thorndale Farm LLC, the entity that oversees his Great, Great Grandfather Oakleigh Thorne’s branch of the family’ investment portfolio, which includes both indirect investments as well as direct investments. The firm’s direct investments focus on information services companies and include Gogo, Inc.; Shoppertrak, Corp.; Datamark, Inc., and Machinerylink, Inc. ‘
Thorne led the sale of CCH for $1.9 billion to Wolters Kluwer, a Dutch publishing company, in January of 1996. Thorne was the fourth generation of his family to be associated with CCH. His great, great grandfather purchased the company’s predecessor, Corporation Trust Co. in 1902, establishing a 94-year commitment to CCH by the Thorne family. Prior to joining CCH in 1986, Oakleigh received his MBA from Columbia University. Before business school he was a newspaper reporter at the Boston Globe and the Baltimore News American. He received his MS in journalism from Boston University in 1980.
Oakleigh, a resident of Millbrook, NY, is a member of various non-profit boards, including the Dutchess Land Conservancy and the Dutchess Day School. He is an avid polo player and Boston University Terrier hockey fan; his other hobbies include fishing, shooting, and skiing. Oakleigh is descended from Jonathan (GGG-GF) via Edwin (GG-GF), Oakleigh (G-GF), Charlotte P. (GM), Oakleigh L. (F).
Phebe Thorne has had 4 varied and interesting careers starting with supervisor of medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center after graduating with a BSRN. After 10 years and having successfully lobbied to restore rail passenger service throughout the Adirondacks (Amtrak) she worked as legislative aide for State Senator Ronald Stafford. She subsequently became Assistant Counsel after graduating from Pace Law School.
The best seller is “Camp Cooking in the Adirondacks”. Phebe has served on nonprofit boards: Henry St Settlement for 30 years where she started the blockbuster fund raiser THE ART SHOW which annually raises a million dollars; Fort Ticonderoga for 25 years where she started the membership program and the yearly fund raiser The Officers Dinner; Adirondack Architectural Heritage; and Columbia Nursing School. She is a founding member of the Wood River Women’s Charitable Foundation which pools the gifts of 125 members, does site visits to charities and give meaningful impact grants
She is also on the board of Sun Valley opera. Phebe lives happily with her sweetheart Cornelius (Neil) Ryan in Ketchum-Sun Valley, Connecticut and Grandpa (Samuel) Thorne’s old Adirondack camp, The Uplands.
Phebe is descended from Jonathan (GG-GF) via Samuel (G-GF), Samuel (GF), and Lewis (F).
Special Advisors
Dune Thorne is a Partner for Brown Advisory where she works closely with families to help them develop thoughtful plans for their financial resources. Her personal philanthropic interests are focused on financial literacy for women and girls.
She is also a graduate of the Boston Center for Community & Justice Lead Boston Program.
Ms. Thorne is the founder and Chairwoman of the Board of Invest in Girls, a member of the Golden Seeds LP Advisory Committee, the Boston Estate Planning Council, 85 Broads, Boston Women and Finance and the Boston Foundation’s Professional Advisors Committee.
She sits on the investment committee for the Lincoln Nursery School and is a trustee of Milton Academy and the deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum.
Dune is descended from Jonathan (GGGG-GF) via Samuel (GGG-GF), Edwin (GG-GR), Landon (G-GF), Edwin (GF), Brinkley (F).
Associate Board Members
Vehro is a Private Wealth Advisor in the Seattle office of Goldman Sachs, where he serves high net worth families and non-profit clients with a broad range of investment and wealth management services. Prior to joining GS, Vehro was an entrepreneur; he founded, operated as CEO and/or CFO, and sold a portfolio of businesses with offices in Seattle, Beijing, and Amsterdam. He earned his BA in Economics from the University of Chicago and his MBA with Honors from the University of Washington Foster School of Business. Vehro serves as chair of the Finance Committee and member of the Sustainable Forest and Communities Initiative for the Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation.
Born in Denver, Colorado, Newell is a fifth-generation Coloradan. After attending Westminster School in Simsbury, CT and Denison University in Granville, OH (BA, Political Science, 2003), Newell began working for a professional staffing firm in Boston. Since 2005, he has worked in the Development Office at Westminster School on their major gifts fundraising team. Newell is no stranger to multi-generational family partnerships, as he participates in a number of committees (investments, conservation, education) within the Grant Family structure. Newell and his wife, Helena Thorne-Marrin Grant live in downtown Boston with their daughter, Belle, and dog Nellie. Newell spends his free time hiking, rowing, fishing, and hunting.
Emeritus
Spike Thorne graduated from Yale in 1951 and went to work as a bond salesman for Shields and Company in New York. He subsequently left Shields and went to work for Scudder, Stevens, and Clark where he specialized in fixed income securities, eventually becoming responsible for developing the firm’s fixed income policy and portfolio management programs.
Spike is descended from Jonathan (GG-GF) via Samuel (G-GF), Samuel (GF) and Samuel (F).
