Lee M. Mitchell

Lee Mitchell is a Managing Partner at Thoma Bravo. Based in Chicago, he participated in forming the firm in 1998 and has played a pivotal role in guiding its investment strategy over the last 25+ years.

Lee previously was a Partner in Thoma Bravo’s predecessor firm, Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner (GTCR). Before that, he was President and CEO of The Field Corporation and its predecessor, Field Enterprises, Inc., which owned and operated businesses in newspaper and educational publishing (including the Chicago Sun-Times and My Weekly Reader), direct marketing, television (including stations in Chicago and San Francisco), cable television and commercial real estate. He also has been a practicing attorney specializing in regulated industries as a Partner with Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., and Chicago, and later oversaw that firm’s Asian offices.

Outside of Thoma Bravo, Lee is committed to sharing his deep expertise by participating on the boards of several civic and cultural institutions. He is a Life-Trustee of Northwestern University, where he has been Chair of the Investments Committee, and of affiliates of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he has been a member of the Investment Committee and Chair of the Alternative Investments Subcommittee. He also is a member of the Board of the American Investment Council in Washington, D.C., and of the Illinois Venture Capital Association, where he has been the Chair and PAC Chair. He is the former Chairman of The Chicago Stock Exchange, which makes an alternative market in NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stocks, and two-time Past Chair of the Metropolitan Planning Council, a civic organization focused on maintaining an equitable and economically competitive Chicago region.

Lee received his BA from Wesleyan University and JD from the University of Chicago Law School.