Thurman White joins the ESO board after retiring in 2020 as Chief Executive of Progress Investment Management Company, LLC (“Progress”). Progress was a San Francisco, California-based employee-owned asset manager and leader in investing with diverse boutique public market investment managers across the U. S. At its peak, the firm managed over $7 billion in assets in multi-manager strategies for some of the largest and most prestigious U. S. institutional investors. 

Thurman and the Progress senior team coached over 150 other small investment firms during his tenure focused primarily on building CEO and leadership capability, talent development and growth including succession planning and strategies to foster employee ownership transitions. Thurman has served on several for profit and non-profit boards. Most recently he served eight years on the board of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the nation’s largest community foundation, where he has served on the Investment Committee (and is past IC chair). He is a licensed attorney, angel investor, and a racial justice and minority business advocate. Thurman has degrees from Princeton, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley Law.