Michael Thonis
Managing Director and Chief
   Operating Officer

Prior to co-founding Charlesbank in 1998, Mike was a managing director at Harvard Private Capital Group, the firm’s predecessor. He joined there in 1991, having begun his tenure at Harvard Management Company in 1979 as director of research.

Before Harvard, Mike was with Bain & Company, providing strategic planning assistance to large US-based corporations.

Mike holds a BS, summa cum laude, in geology from Syracuse University, an MS in geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard University.

Mike serves on the Board of Visitors at Syracuse University and the  Board of Overseers at the Boston Museum of Science. He is also a Trustee of the Geological Society of America Foundation. Mike lives in Wellesley, MA, with his wife and three boys. He has a range of outdoor interests, including earth sciences and mountaineering.