Portrait of Peter Thoren  

Peter Thoren

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF ACCESS INDUSTRIES

Peter L. Thoren is Executive Vice President of Access Industries, a privately held, U.S.-based industrial group with long-term investments worldwide, and offices in New York, London, and Moscow. Access’s focus spans four key sectors: natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, real estate, and technology and ecommerce.

Before joining Access in 2001, Mr. Thoren was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Walker Digital Corporation. Previously, he served in senior management positions with Salomon Inc and Citigroup and was an attorney with Rogers & Wells law firm in New York.

In addition to corporate boards, Mr. Thoren is on the boards of The Sabin Vaccine Institute (Vice Chairman), The Institute of Strategic Dialogue, The Center for National Policy/Truman National Security Project, ThanksUSA, and the Darien Historical Society.

Mr. Thoren graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the N.Y. State Bar and the Council on Foreign Relations.