Some 30 years ago, Russ Thornton left a successful, if not entirely financially fruitful, career as an orchestra conductor in San Francisco and found himself “at the right place at the right time” in California’s Silicon Valley computer science industry.
Much has changed in the tech space over the past three decades. However, while Stephen Sondheim musicals remain his first love, Mr Thornton’s “sweet spot” career-wise is working with a company “on its transformation journey”.
