Board of directors

John M. Toomey, Jr

Chairman of the Board of Directors, American Citizen

John Toomey is a managing director of HarbourVest with a focus on secondary investments in traditional, synthetic, and structured transactions. John joined HarbourVest in 1997 and went on to Harvard Business School in 1999; he rejoined HarbourVest after receiving his MBA. He was involved in the December 2007 initial public offering of HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited, a listed private equity vehicle, where he served as Chief Financial Officer from its IPO through September 2008.  John serves on the advisory boards of a number of private equity partnerships, including funds managed by Clearwater Capital Partners, Mizuho Investment Management (UK) Limited, and Wachovia Capital Partners. 

John's previous experience includes two years as an analyst at Smith Barney, Inc., where he served in the Advisory Group focusing on merger and acquisition transactions, as well as corporate restructurings. 

John received a BS (cum laude) in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University in 1995 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2001, where he was awarded the Loeb Fellowship for outstanding achievement in finance.

Thomas Amstutz

Member of the Board of Directors, Swiss Citizen

Since 1978 with Credit Suisse he has been holding a variety of management positions within Credit Suisse Group. In 1987, he was appointed Managing Director of CSFB Geneva, Head of Foreign Exchange / Precious Metals Options. Between 1991 and 1996 he held different positions within Credit Suisse in Zurich, before heading the Sales and Trading department in Frankfurt. In 1999 he was appointed Member of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Private Banking and from August 2002 until December 2004 he was Member of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Financial Services and Head of the Division Investment Management.

Thomas Amstutz holds the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the following listed Swiss investment companies: Absolute Invest Ltd., Zug and Absolute Private Equity Ltd., Zug.

Thomas Amstutz is CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Absolute Investment Services Ltd., Zurich.

In addition he is Member of the Board of Directors of the following companies: Jade Invest SA, Neuchâtel, Tradejet AG, Zurich and FinOps AG, Zurich. Thomas Amstutz is further a Member of the investment advisory panel of Gemini Sammelstiftung, Zurich.

He holds no permanent management or consultancy functions for interest groups, official functions or political posts.

Frederick C. Maynard

Member of the Board of Directors, American Citizen

Fred Maynard is a managing director of HarbourVest who focuses on secondary investments.  He joined HarbourVest in 1985 after receiving his MBA. 

His previous experience includes working as a loan officer in the National Division of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company.  He is a member of the Board of Trustees at Wesleyan University and the board of the Private Equity Center at the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth College. 

Fred received a BA from Wesleyan University in 1980 and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1985.