Board of Directors

Alex Gounares is thrv’s Technology Managing Director. He leads the architectural design, engineering process and software development for thrv’s portfolio companies. He is the former Chief Technology Officer for Bing and Chief Technology Advisor to Bill Gates at Microsoft and the former Chief Technology Officer at AOL. He has a BSE in Computer Science cum laude from Princeton University.

Jared Ranere is thrv’s President & COO. He has seven years of experience at thrv using JTBD to accelerate growth at private equity portfolio companies and leading corporations. Jared was previously Director of Product at Patch (AOL) and a Vice President at outside.in. He has a BA with Honors from the University of Chicago.

Jay Haynes is thrv’s Founder and CEO. Jay helped start an independent sponsor that successfully acquired and merged Steinway & Sons with Selmer and then successfully took the combined company public. Jay was formerly the CEO of Strategyn. He previously worked as an investment professional at GTCR and as a product manager at Microsoft. He has an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a BA with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Brown University.

John Danner is a Managing Director at The Gores Group where he is responsible for portfolio company oversight as well as leading operational due diligence efforts for the firm’s investments . John was previously President & CEO at Northern Power Systems.

John has also held roles as President & CEO at Codon Devices as well as executive and management roles at PerkinElmer and McKinsey & Company.

Barry Kelly is the Co-founder and former CEO of Thought Industries. He has spent the last 20+ years as an external training champion, marketer, and digital learning innovator. His career has focused on supporting businesses to deliver impactful training experiences that increase customer lifetime value.

Prior to Thought Industries, Barry was the Vice President of Technology and Product Development at America’s Test Kitchen. In this role, he created, executed and maintained the digital product strategy and served on the senior management team.

Dave Ulrich is a Partner at Luminate Capital Partners.

Prior to joining Luminate, Dave was a senior associate at Mainsail Partners and an analyst at RBC Capital Markets. Dave also sits on the board at AutoQuotes, Conexiom, StarCompliance, and Quantivate.

Hollie Moore Hynes is the Founder and Managing Partner of Luminate Capital Partners.

Prior to founding Luminate, Hollie focused on software private equity investing at Silver Lake. Earlier in her career, she worked in private equity at Hellman & Friedman and in investment banking at Morgan Stanley & Co.

Chris Murphy is an Operating Partner at Luminate Capital Partners. Prior to Luminate, Chris served as the Chief Revenue Officer of BlackLine, where he led the go-to-market team in revenue growth from $40M to more than $200M in four years and helped lead the company through a successful IPO. He spent 10 years at Infor where he was a cross-functional executive and played a key role as the company grew to over $2B in sales and became the third-largest application software company.

Chris held previous leadership positions in other companies including Platinum Technology, divine, inc, Information Resources Inc. and Melita International.