Cornerstone Holdings Team

Tom McCloskey is the Chairman and CEO of Cornerstone Holdings, a private investment firm focused on real estate and direct investments, and Chairman of Urban Green Investments in San Francisco. Investments include Magna Energy Services, Petro Cloud (oil and gas), and bMedia (outdoor advertising). Cornerstone actively owns, manages and develops real estate in several markets across the United States including Colorado, the San Francisco Bay Area, Hawaii, and New York State. Tom served as chairman of Horizon Organic Holdings (HCOW) the world’s largest organic dairy company from 1993 to 2004, and a director of Palmer Wireless (PWIR). He founded the McCloskey Business Plan Competition at the University of Notre Dame. He serves on the board of the Thacher School (Ojai, California), the Central American Leadership Initiative (CALI), and the National Board of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. He was an original member of the Better Angels Society which supports the efforts of documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns. Tom received his BA from Notre Dame and, after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi, his MBA from the Wharton School. He and his wife, Bonnie, live in Aspen – where she has served as a Trustee of the Aspen Institute since 2001 – and the Bay Area. They have four children and seven grandchildren.