{"id":68126,"date":"2023-09-27T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/person\/christopherthorne\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:40:01","slug":"christopherthorne","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/person\/christopherthorne\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Thorne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><span>Christopher Thorne is chairman of Broadline Capital, a global private equity firm primarily focused on growth capital and impact investments in North America and Asia.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span>Broadline Capital<\/span><span>\u00a0has received numerous industry recognitions including Private Equity International\u2019s Asia Deal of the Year award for a 2007 China transaction, the 2012 Fierce 15 Award in medical technology, and the 2016 Technology Deal of the Year at the 8th Annual International M&amp;amp;A Awards.\u00a0<\/span><span>P<\/span><span>reviously, Chris worked at McKinsey &amp;amp; Company,\u00a0<\/span><span>where he managed strategic and operational engagements for Fortune 500 companies.\u00a0After serving leadership roles at McKinsey, he left the firm to execute on his entrepreneurial vision by launching a SaaS\u00a0company whose on-demand intelligence solutions\u00a0created efficiency gains for manufacturers, distributors and retailers by converting paper-based business processes into paperless electronic transactions throughout the CPG value chain. He then\u00a0initiated\u00a0a rollup\u00a0of SaaS niche-leaders. The resulting company received VC backing by Accel-KKR and successfully sold to Roper Industries.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Chris is a triple graduate of Harvard (JD, MBA, AB), where he served as president of the university-wide student government and founded the Harvard Negotiation Law Review.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":68125,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/68126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}