Background
He is the son of former Pennsylvania governor and United States. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh.
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He is the son of former Pennsylvania governor and United States. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh.
Thornburgh graduated from Haverford College in Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He later attended Harvard University"s Kennedy School of Government where he received a Masters in Public Policy (Master in Public Policy) degree.
Prior to joining Seventy in December, 2014 he served as Executive Director of the University of Pennsylvania"s Fels Institute of Government) He is a frequent commentator on regional development, public policy and civic affairs He has been recognized by Leadership Philadelphia as one of the most trusted and respected civic "connectors" in the Philadelphia area. Thornburgh went on to become the Director of Civic Affairs at the Cigna Corporation in Philadelphia.
In 1988 Thornburgh was appointed as Director of the Wharton Small Business Development Center, the consulting and training arm of the Wharton School"s top-ranked Entrepreneurial Center, where he helped 20,000 entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses, raise $40 million in additional capital, and in the process create 4,000 new jobs in the region.
In 1994, he left the SBDC to become the Executive Director of the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, one of the nation"s oldest and most respected private sector-led regional "think and do" tanks. While at the Economy League, he led efforts to reduce and restructure local taxes, improve the quality of the regional workforce, invest in arts and culture, and position the Philadelphia as an entrepreneurial, knowledge-based economy.
Following his time at the Economy League, in 2006, Thornburgh was named President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship, a best-practice network of regional leaders in communities across the United States. In 1991 he was chosen by the "Philadelphia Business Journal" as one of "40 Business Leaders Under 40".
Lifelong musicians, Rebecca and David perform in an alt-country band called Reckless Amateurs that appears regularly in the Philadelphia area.
David also plays pedal steel guitar in an original alt-country band, The Miners, and is a lifelong scuba diver.