Third Leaf Partners Team

Aaron Faust is a Founding and Managing Partner of Third Leaf Partners. He serves on the board of Blackberry Farm LLC, which owns and operates Blackberry Farm, Blackberry Mountain, and High Hampton, and as a Managing Partner of the Windham Mountain Club, the premier ski resort in the greater New York metro area. He also serves on the boards of WineBid, the largest online wine auction site, Last Bottle, the largest online flash sale site for wine in the US, and is a founder and director of Protea Financial, which provides accounting and bookkeeping services to small- and medium-sized businesses. He previously served on the board of Twin Farms, a 20 room Relais & Chateaux property in Vermont. Prior to founding Third Leaf, he was a founding partner of a firm that owned, operated and managed high-end resort and winery assets globally and served as a Managing Partner through 2011. There, he served on the board of the California Lodging Industry Association, as well as the boards of past investments, including Meadowood Napa Valley and the Napa Valley Reserve. Aaron worked previously as a corporate attorney. Aaron received his undergraduate degree in Political Science with Distinction in General Scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley and is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the State Bar of California.