John Thornton

Chairman @ RedBird Capital Partners arrow icon

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  • Had a legendary career on Wall Street spanning over four decades
  • Served as the chairman of several corporate, public policy, and educational boards in the US and China
  • Was the Co-President of Goldman Sachs
  • Served as the Co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International
  • Credited for building Goldman Sachs' business outside the United States
  • Served as the Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia
  • Became the first non-Chinese full professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing since 1949
  • Is the director of the Global Leadership Program at Tsinghua University
  • Sits on multiple boards
  • Has a long history of corporate and philanthropic leadership
  • Is Co-Chair of the Asia Society
  • Trustee of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management
  • Member of the International Advisory Council of CIC, the Chinese sovereign wealth fund
  • Met with Xi Jinping as part of the US-China summit and CEO delegation in San Francisco
  • Served on the Boards of HSBC, Intel, General Atlantic, ICBC, China Unicom, IMG, BSkyB, DirecTV, News Corp
  • On the advisory board of McKinsey and the Council on Foreign Relations
  • Named by Institutional Investor Magazine as one of forty individuals who have had the greatest influence in shaping global financial markets over the past forty years

About RedBird Capital Partners

RedBird Capital Partners, founded by former Goldman Sachs Partner Gerry Cardinale, manages $10 billion across various sectors, focusing on building high-growth companies with a long-term, entrepreneurial investment approach.

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