Page updated May 23, 2012.

John L. Thornton

Muckety metrics:

Connections: John L. Thornton has direct or once-removed relationships with 1,442 people, organizations or other entities in our database of the most influential people in America. Under a scoring system that gives more weight to direct links, this score is higher than 99% of all entries.

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Muckety connection score: 99

Influence: Thornton has a Muckety influence index of 99 out of 100. This is a measure of power and reach compared with others in the U.S. leadership elite.

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Muckety influence score: 99

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John L. Thornton

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Gender: Male

Age in 2012: 58

Areas of interest:

nonprofits

education

business

auto industry

broadcast industry

electronics industry

finance

media

mining

telecommunications

Personal social network: Much of Thornton's Muckety comes from nonprofit connections. He has direct links to five Fortune 1000 companies.

Financial information:

As an officer, director and/or owner of publicly traded securities, John L. Thornton has filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission. >> See filings

Muckety news stories featuring John L. Thornton

Deja vu for News Corp. director Tom Perkins

Tom Perkins has seen it before.

July 12, 2011

John L. Thornton current relationships:

Barrick Gold Corporation - director

Brookings Institution - chair

China Netcom Group Corporation - director

Committee on Capital Markets Regulation - member

Eisenhower Fellowships - trustee

Financial Services Volunteer Corps - director

Ford Motor Company - director

Hotchkiss School - graduate & president

HSBC Holdings plc - director

HSBC North America Holdings Inc. - chairman

Morehouse College - trustee

News Corp. - director

Tsinghua University - professor

John L. Thornton past relationships:

Asia Society - trustee

BSkyB - director

China Institute in America - trustee

DIRECTV Group Inc. - director

Goldman Sachs Foundation - trustee

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. - president & COO

Intel Corporation - director

Laura Ashley Holdings - director

Yale School of Management - advisory board member

Five degrees of Kevin:

We can connect John L. Thornton with Kevin Bacon in three steps:
John L. Thornton → HSBC Holdings plc →
Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities →

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Extended reach:

Among the most influential people in John L. Thornton's web of second-degree relationships:

Andrew H. Tisch

Ann M. Fudge

Donald F. McHenry

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