Elizabeth Thorne

Managing Director, Private Fixed Income and ESG

Elizabeth (Liz) Thorne is Managing Director, Private Fixed Income & ESG for SLC Management.

Liz invests in private debt including corporate and structured/asset-backed notes. She is responsible for all aspects of deal sourcing, credit analysis and portfolio monitoring. Her focus is on clean energy, ESG integration and sustainable investments. Liz serves on the board of Sun Life’s BrightWomen and SLC Management’s Sustainable Investment Committee and Council. She also led SLC Management’s Net Zero task force and the Private Fixed Income proprietary ESG scoring development team, among other sustainable finance related initiatives.

Liz has over 19 years of experience in private, public and bank debt. She joined SLC Management in 2016. 

Prior to joining SLC Management, Liz was Director of Debt Management and Special Finance Programs at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She also served as the  governor’s designee on the MassDevelopment and Mass Ventures Board of Directors. Before that, she was Vice President and Director at TD Securities.

Liz earned her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and her Bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College. She also earned a graduate Certificate in Financing and Developing Clean Energy from Yale University in 2020.