Carl D. Thoma
Managing Partner
Thoma Cressey Bravo Inc.
Carl Thoma is the founding partner of Thoma Cressey Bravo Inc. (TCB), a private equity firm headquartered in Chicago, with an office in San Francisco. ThroughTCB and its predecessor firm, he has invested nearly $3 billion in equitythrough eight funds. Mr.Thoma has been acknowledged in Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek for his leadership in "industryconsolidation" investments.
Mr. Thoma was born and raised on a ranch in NewMexico/ Oklahoma. He receivedhis BS degree from Oklahoma State University in 1970, with studiesemphasizing in accounting and agriculture economics, and subsequentlyreceived his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1973.
Mr. Thoma has served on the board of numerous public and private companies in which he has invested and has been a member of a number of venture capital advisory boards. He has also been a member of the board of Evanston Northwestern Hospital Corp., Evanston, Illinois, and COPIA, the American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, California.
A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. Thoma also was a member of the board of the National Venture Capital Association and was its president and then chairman from 1996 to 1998.
Mr. Thoma has served as a member of the national panel of judges for the Entrepreneur of the Year awards and is honored in the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.
Mr. Thoma and his wife, Marilyn, a 1975 Stanford MBA, live in Kenilworth, a North Shore suburb of Chicago. Both of his children are recent Stanford graduates. Mr. Thoma and his wife own Van Duzer Vineyards, an estate winery in the Willamette Valley or Oregon, andhave built a significant collection of South American art from 1600 to1800.
