William N Thorndike Jr.

William N Thorndike Jr. is the Founder and Managing Director of Housatonic Partners, a leading middle market private equity firm with offices in Boston and San Francisco. He has served as a Director of over 30 companies. He is currently a Director of Carillon Assisted Living LLC; Lincoln Peak Holdings LLC; OASIS Group Ltd; QMC International LLC and ZircoData Ltd. He is Chairman of the Board of Consol Energy (NYSE: CNX).

William N Thorndike Jr. has also served as a Trustee of non-profit organizations, including Groton School (where he was Chair of the Finance and Nominating Committees) and the Stanford Business School Trust (where he was Chair of the Private Equity Committee). He is currently a Trustee (and incoming Finance Committee Chair) of WGBH in Boston and Board Chair at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME. Will is also Senior Advisor to Brahman Capital, a public market investment fund based in Manhattan with ~$4 billion in assets under management. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is the author of The Outsiders, which has been translated into ten languages.