At Clerestory, we develop long-term relationships with senior management, business owners, non-profit directors, and entrepreneurs by helping them establish and achieve their objectives for long-term success. We have no hidden agendas, no conflicts of interest, and no need to sell you any research or underwriting services. Our only measure of success is your success.
Once on board, Clerestory becomes a member of your team working with you, your management team, attorneys, accountants, bankers, investors, and insurance agents to ensure projects are well thought out and result in effective, integrated solutions.
Nancy Hawthorne
Until 1996, Nancy was the Chief Financial Officer of Continental Cablevision, Inc., where she was responsible for treasury, merger and acquisition, investor relations and accounting functions, and for the company's financial strategy and capital-markets activities. Nancy executed more than 50 M&A transactions and raised more than $10 billion through dozens of transactions including private equity placements and public and private placements of debt. As CFO, she played a pivotal role in negotiating and closing the sale of the company to US West for more than $11 billion in 1996. Prior to joining Continental, she was a banker at Citibank and Bankers Trust Company.
Nancy serves on several corporate boards, including Avid Technology, Metropolitan Series Funds, and THL Credit. She is a member of the Wellesley College Investment Committee. Her prior not-for-profit service includes eleven years on the board of New England Medical Center (several as Chair of the Finance Committee), six years on the board of the Wellesley Centers for Women (the last three as Finance Chair), seven years on the board of the Brookline Center, and seven years on the board of the Brookline High School 21st Century Fund. She is a member of the Business Leadership Council of Wellesley College and of the Financial Executives Institute, of which she is a past President of the Boston chapter.
She received a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1973 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977.
Dan Hawthorne
Until he joined Clerestory in 2001, Dan was the Chief Financial Officer of WorldClinic, Inc., where he managed the firm's financial strategy, board and investor relations, budgeting and accounting, and tax and financial reporting. He was also instrumental in restructuring the company and negotiating and executing the management buyout that closed in August, 2001.
Prior to his tenure at WorldClinic, he was a Vice President in FleetBoston Financial's Technology and Communications team, where he was involved in the pricing and structuring of syndicated senior credit facilities and major recapitalizations requiring FleetBoston's capital markets capabilities in high yield and equity.
Dan serves on the board of advisors for Entrustet, a digital asset estate planning solution and on the board of the Rotary Club of Marblehead Harbor, where he is a Paul Harris Fellow and an active participant in many local community service initiatives. Dan is also a coach in Babson College's Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork Program. His prior not-for-profit experience includes the Brookline Music School where he was a board member, chair of the finance committee, and co-chair of the Strategic Planning Committee as well as St. John’s Prep where he was on the board of the Alumni Association and the chair of the Education Committee.
Dan received a bachelor's degree from Clark University in 1985 and an MBA from the Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College in 1996. He also completed the focused financial management program, "Corporate Restructurings, Mergers, and Acquisitions" at Harvard Business School.