Thomas L. Kempner Jr.

Thomas Lenox Kempner Jr. (born March 23, 1953) is an American investor and philanthropist and a co-founder of Davidson Kempner Capital Management.

Early life Kempner was born on March 23, 1953, in Southampton, New York. He is the son of investment banker Thomas Lenox Kempner and New York socialite Nan Field Schlesinger (better known as Nan Kempner), who was the U.S. correspondent for Vogue France. Among his siblings was younger brother James Lindsay Kempner.

His paternal grandparents were Alan H. Kempner and Margaret ( Loeb) Kempner (the daughter of Carl M. Loeb, investment banker and founder of Loeb, Rhoades & Co.). His maternal grandfather was Albert Edward Schlesinger of San Francisco, founder and former chairman of S & C Motors, one of California's largest Ford dealerships.

Career Following Harvard, he worked for Goldman Sachs & Company, investment bankers from 1978 to 1981. He later worked in principal investments at two small firms, Loeb Partners and First City Capital. He was succeeded by Tony Yoseloff.

In 2020, he founded and began serving as president of Keewaydin Investments LLC. With his father, he endowed a chair in computer sciences in the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. They married at St. Andrew's Dune Church in Southampton, New York in May 1979.