Landon Thorne

Managing Director and Partner

2009 - Current

Projects International is a Washington, DC based Venture Creation and International Business Advisory firm specializing in enterprise creation through carefully crafted and financed strategic partnerships and venture relationships for internationally oriented companies. An affiliate, Integrated Energy Systems (IES), concentrates on world-wide energy efficiency projects. Projects International's areas of concentration include Natural Resources, Agriculture-Mariculture, Energy Efficiency, Medical Technologies, Defense and Aviation, and Technology Integration. The firm also sponsors a 'seed capital' fund for private investor participation in off-shore venture creation.

Chair - Board of Managers

2012

Thorne Heritage Resources, LLC is a privately held, family owned and operated enterprise established to represent and manage the collective fractional interests of the extended Thorne family's substantial mineral rights assets located in East Central Pennsylvania. The Company's activities are overseen by a Board of Managers comprised of family members with requisite expertise and representative of each branch of the family descending from the original rights Grantor.

Founder and President

1984

Originally founded as Midas Financial Group, Inc. for Merchant Banking, M&A, and Corporate Finance. When the primary business was sold, I retained the consulting and advisory division, Midas Advisory Group, Inc., which currently operates as a family office to oversee and manage Venture Capital and Angel Investing activities, in addition to a 'full spectrum' diversified investment portfolio and personal business affairs. Affiliates under management include, LKT Approved Special Assets, LLC, Thorne Family Investments, LP, Premier Property Management, LLC, Hoota Woods Plantation, LLC, Thorne Foundation, and several 'for purpose' SPE's.

Independent Film Producer

2018

Sponsor, Beaufort International Film Festival and supporter of talented emerging indie film-makers . IMDB profile: https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm11779670/

Member - Investment Panel

2014

Funders Club is the leading crowd funding system for Angel investing. FundersClub envisions a world where startups that move the world forward more efficiently can secure the funding and support they need to innovate and thrive, and where more people benefit from their rise. The Funders Club mission is to use software and networks of people to best discover, fund, and support the world’s best founders, and to provide investors with investment access to the world’s most promising startups.

Former CEO

1999 - 2015

Litho of America was successfully sold to United Medical Systems in February, 2015. The Company continues to operate a non-physician owned system of mobile medical services throughout the South Central Region of the US. .

Colonel (Ret)

1967 - 2002