Carl D. Thoma

President

Carl D. Thoma is an art collector, philanthropist, and managing partner and founder of Thoma Bravo, LLC. An early player in the field of venture capital beginning with Golder, Thoma in 1980, Carl has applied his eye for entrepreneurial talent to collecting Modern and Contemporary paintings, and most recently in the fields of Digital Art and Light & Space.

In his chosen profession, Carl has been acknowledged in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Fortune for his investment leadership. He has chaired the National Venture Capital Association. Carl is co-proprietor of Van Duzer Vineyards, an 80-acre estate winery in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, that produces world class Pinot Noir. He is currently on the Boards of the Hirshhorn Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, McKnight Center for the Performing Arts, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and SITE Santa Fe. Carl Thoma earned his bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University and his MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

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