David Thayer

David Thayer is a retired partner at the Blackstone Group, where he helped launch and manage the firm’s publicly traded yield-oriented investment platform. Prior to this, David had co-founded Harvest Fund Advisors, a family of hedge funds investing in energy infrastructure, which was purchased by Blackstone in 2017.

For twenty years David also served as a tanker, scout, and infantryman in the U.S. Army, on Active Duty and as a Reservist, most recently commanding an armored cavalry unit based in Philadelphia. A former Board Chairman of the Moving Picture Institute and Trustee of the John Boyer Memorial Fund Scholarship, he currently serves on the advisory boards of Oranje, Onramp, Trammell Venture Partners, American Cloud, Metaxas Media, Students for Liberty, the Atlas Network, the Open Discourse Coalition, and the Economic Inclusion Group. Additionally, he serves on the President’s Parents Leadership Council at Elon University and on the investment committee at the Christchurch School in Virginia.

David is a graduate of the Wharton School, the London School of Economics, and the University of Chicago, where he was graduated with Honors. He enjoys spending time with family and friends, restoring an old house, and indulging his interests in faith, freedom, public policy, and live music.