As a Director of Mason Wells Buyout Funds, Mr. Thome is primarily responsible for supporting the funds’ investment activities. In this capacity, Mr. Thome is responsible for initiating investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, negotiating debt financings, serving on the Board of Directors of portfolio companies, and working with portfolio company management teams.

Prior to joining Mason Wells in 2012, Mr. Thome worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis where he was involved in numerous mergers & acquisitions, advisory and capital markets transactions in the industrial sector.

Mr. Thome received a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Bachelor of Business Administration degrees with Distinction in Finance and Accounting from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.