RedBird Capital Partners Team

John Thornton is the Chairman of the Firm. John has had a legendary career on Wall Street spanning over four decades and most recently has served as the chairman of several corporate, public policy and educational boards in the US and China. John was the Co-President of Goldman Sachs and prior to that served as (i) the Co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International, where he is largely credited for building Goldman Sachs’ business outside the United States, and in this capacity also served as (ii) the Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia. After retiring from Goldman Sachs, John became the first non-Chinese full professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing since 1949, where today he is also the director of the Global Leadership Program for the university. He currently sits on multiple boards, and has a long history of corporate and philanthropic leadership. One of his strengths is his ongoing leadership in Asia. John is Co-Chair of the Asia Society, trustee of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and a member of the International Advisory Council of CIC, the Chinese sovereign wealth fund. John recently met with Xi Jinping as part of the US-China summit and CEO delegation in San Francisco. John has also served on the Boards of HSBC, Intel, General Atlantic, ICBC, China Unicom, IMG, BSkyB, DirecTV, News Corp and on the advisory board of McKinsey and the Council on Foreign Relations. Institutional Investor Magazine named John one of forty individuals who have had the greatest influence in shaping global financial markets over the past forty years.