Thatcher Bell
- Visiting Lecturer
Faculty Area
Interdisciplinary Theme
Faculty Expertise
- Asset Management
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Contact
Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Biography
Thatcher is a visiting instructor for Cornell’s Johnson School of Business. He also holds appointments at Cornell Tech as Head of Startup Studio and Investor-in-Residence. Thatcher is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of the NY Tech Alliance.
Throughout his career, Thatcher has worked with startups as an investor and operator. He co-founded CoVenture, a venture capital, specialty lending, and crypto asset trading firm. Thatcher was previously a Managing Director at Gotham Ventures, where he invested in a number of companies including SinglePlatform (sold to Constant Contact, NASDAQ: CTCT). Before joining Gotham, he was a Senior Analyst at North Hill Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of Capital One Financial, where he worked on the deal teams for the firm’s investments in DealerTrack (NASDAQ: TRAK) and Higher One (NYSE: ONE). Thatcher previously worked at two different start-ups, including enterprise software vendor OpenPages (acquired by IBM).
Thatcher holds a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Recent Courses
- NBA 5075/LAW 6114 - Big Red Ventures
Academic Degrees
- MBA University of Pennsylvania, 2005
- BS Cornell University, 1997