Thomas W. Jones

Founder, TWJ Capital LLC, (retired)

New Canaan, CT

Thomas W. Jones is the founder and former senior partner of venture capital investment firm TWJ Capital LLC, from which he retired in January 2025. He began his career in 1973 as a management consultant at Arthur Young & Company (predecessor firm to Ernst & Young) and went on to serve in executive leadership roles for Citigroup, TIAA-CREF, and John Hancock Life Insurance Company from 1982 to 2005.

He is a member of the boards of directors of public companies Assured Guaranty Ltd. and Jefferies Financial Group. Previously, he served on the corporate boards of Altria Group, Freddie Mac, Travelers Group, TIAA-CREF, Fox Entertainment Group, Pepsi Bottling Group, Thomas & Betts Corp, Eastern Enterprises, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (former vice chairman). Thomas also served on the nonprofit boards of trustees of Cornell University, Cornell University Medical College, Howard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Boston), PBS Channel Thirteen (New York), Brookings Institution, and Boston Ballet Company.

He is the author of From Willard Straight to Wall Street: A Memoir (2019) and is the winner of the 2020 Axiom Business Book Award Bronze Prize in the memoir/biography category.

Thomas was elected to his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2025.

He holds an MBA from Boston University and is a certified public accountant in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has an MS and a BA from Cornell University, where he is a trustee emeritus, a recipient of the Frank H. T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award, and has been elected Presidential Councillor, Cornell University’s highest distinction. He was awarded honorary doctoral degrees from Howard University (Doctor of Humane Letters), Pepperdine University (Doctor of Laws), and the College of New Rochelle (Doctor of Commercial Science), and has been designated Board Governance Fellow by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).