“[A] small group of private equity firms like … Thoma Bravo have taken a much more aggressive approach. They select one of their portfolio companies to use as an aggregator vendor, and then acquire companies at a brisk pace to create new mega-vendors with financial resources, customer bases, and product footprints on par with some of the biggest traditional … companies.”
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Carl D. Thoma

Partners

Carl D. Thoma

Managing Partner
Chicago Office
312-254-3320
cthoma@thomabravo.com

Education

MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
BS, Accounting, Agriculture Economics, Oklahoma State University

Prior Experience

First Chicago Investment Corporation, Chicago, IL
Partner, Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc., Chicago, IL

Representative Investments

American Amicable Holding, Inc. (Board Member)
Datatel, Inc. (Board Member)
Desgrippes Gobe Group, Inc. (Board Member)
Excelligence Learning Corporation (Board Member)
Global DocuGraphiX, Inc.
LAGA, Inc. (Board Member)
Local Media of America, Inc. (Board Member)
Meridian Mortuary Group, Inc.
Viecore, Inc. (Board Member)

Other Activities

Former President and Chairman, National Venture Capital Association
Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council
Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame