Thomas Richard DiBenedetto
Thomas R. DiBenedetto is Chairman of the Board of Jefferson Waterman International. He is also president and majority owner of Junction Investors, Ltd., a private equity firm and its affiliates Boston International Group, a money management company, and Athena Holdings, LLC.
Mr. DiBenedetto has been investing in private equity for over 25 years and has been active in telecommunications, technology, real estate, and mining ventures. He is managing director of WT Junction China Growth Investment Fund, a direct equity fund that makes investments in the Peoples Republic of China, and a major shareholder in ITI International, LLC, a leading provider of secure communications software in Russia and Europe. In addition, Mr. DiBenedetto is a director of Alexander's, Inc., a New York-based real estate investment trust; Detwiler Mitchell & Co., an NASD broker dealer; NWH, Inc., an electronic and commerce communications company; and Voice Signal Technologies, Inc., a leading international voice recognition company. Mr. DiBenedetto is also a limited partner of the Boston Red Sox Baseball Club.
Prior to forming Boston International Group in 1983, Mr. DiBenedetto was an investment banker at Allen & Company, Inc., Salomon Brothers, and Morgan Stanley. He has served on the leadership council of the JFK Center for Business and Government at Harvard University and as a trustee of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is also a trustee of Boston Biomedical Research Institute, the Canterbury School in Ft. Myers, Florida, and the Ted Williams Museum in Citrus Hills, Florida.
Mr. DiBenedetto holds a B.A. with honors in economics from Trinity College and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
