Richard Thaler

Richard Thaler is a recovering investment banker who spent 40 years advising corporations, private equity funds and even unions in mergers & acquisitions as well as debt and equity financing and leverage buyouts. His second career included teaching finance at Morehouse College in Atlanta and subsequently serving as a trustee and treasurer of the college.

In addition to serving as a trustee of the Calculus Project, he has been a trustee or director of a number of corporate/LBO boards as well as educationally oriented not for profits including Singer Sewing Machines, Burger King of Puerto Rico, Branford Castle LBO funds, Gordon Brothers, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, the American Antiquarian Society, The Daily Princetonian, the Princeton University History Dept Advisory council, Plimoth Plantation, the Episcopal Divinity School and Learn 4 Life Charleston Charter School.

A native Bostonian, as a young man he lived in Rio de Janeiro and worked for the Bank of Boston. He also crossed Asia by public bus. He is conversant in Brazilian Portuguese and speaks English with a Boston accent. Thaler is a graduate of Brookline High School, Princeton University and Harvard Business School. He has three grown children and four grandchildren. He remains a die hard Boston sports fan and is a season ticket holder to the Red Sox and Patriots despite spending winters in Charleston, SC!