Thomas A. Saunders III

Thomas A. Saunders III is president of Ivor & Co., LLC and the Ivor Foundation, a private investment firm, and family foundation respectively, both located in New York City.

He began his investment banking career at Morgan Stanley where he was a managing director, headed the firm’s syndicate and capital market group, and ultimately became Chairman of its $2.2 billion private equity fund. After leaving Morgan Stanley in 1989, he founded the private equity firm, Saunders Karp & Megrue, which merged in 2005 with Apax Partners, LP, a private equity firm headquartered in London.

An active private equity investor, Mr. Saunders is a Senior Advisor to a number of investment funds including Metalmark Capital, Citi’s Old Lane Funds, Roundtable Partners, Parallel Partners, Goode Holdings, and Blackrock‘s private equity fund of funds. In addition, he serves on the Boards of Directors of the publicly traded Dollar Tree, Inc., where he is Lead Director, and Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc.

Mr. Saunders received his BSEE from the Virginia Military Institute in 1958 and an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School in 1967.