Will Thorndike is the Managing Partner of The Cromwell Harbor Partnership, a private investment company with a variety of long-term holdings. Prior to Cromwell Harbor, Thorndike founded Housatonic Partners, a leading private equity firm with offices in Boston and San Francisco known for exceptionally long investment holding periods. At Housatonic, Thorndike was the pioneering institutional investor in the search fund asset class and played a central role in refining its acquisition criteria. Over the last twenty-five years, he has invested in the vast majority of the top 20 search fund outcomes of all time.

Will is a Founding Principal at TTCER, a private investment partnership, a co-Founder at Compounding Lab, an investment collaboration focused on long term consolidations, and a lead investor at Banyan Software, a related platform in the vertical market software industry. He is Chairman of the Board at CNX Resources, a publicly-traded (NYSE) energy company, and the Co- Chairman of EverArc Holdings, a London-based acquisition vehicle publicly traded on the LSE.

Will is Research Advisor to Wellington Management’s Public Permanent Capital investment strategy and Co-Founder of Sun Mountain Partners, a public market investing partnership. He is also a Director of several private companies, including QMC Telecom. He is a Founder and Jury Member for The Singleton Prize for CEO Excellence, serves as a Trustee for The Cromwell Harbor Foundation, WGBH, College of the Atlantic, and the Land and Garden Preserve, and is the President of David R. Godine, Publisher.

He is a frequent lecturer at the Stanford GSB and the Harvard Business School and speaks often on both capital allocation and search funds, and sits on the Advisory Board for the International Search Fund Center at IESE Business School. Thorndike is the author of The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success, which has been translated into eleven languages. Will is a graduate of Harvard College and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and presently resides in Boston.