Thatcher Davis

Thatcher Davis was born in Omaha, Nebraska and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He earned his MBA from Foster School at the University of Washington.  He currently serves as a member of the Board of the University of Nebraska Foundation and the College of Arts and Sciences and is committed to seeing that the University continue to serve not just the state of Nebraska but the larger midwestern region as leader in research, community engagement and by doggedly pursuing academic excellence at the land grant college. While at the UW Foster School he was instrumental in launching the business plan competition in 1996, now called the Dempsey Start-Up Competition.  Thatcher also funded the Davis Consumer Products competition for undergraduates in 2019 to encourage innovation in the consumer product space. Thatcher, along with his wife and partner, run an omni-channel consumer products company that works with multi-national brands in retail and hospitality to develop sustainably sourced and designed products for the shelter category.  They also have an extensive business that works with archives and museums to monetize diverse public and private collections. In 2023, they launched Woven Shop, its first foray into retail with innovative collections targeted to sustainably minded consumers and members of the trade.  Thatcher loves that Charles Armstrong presented his son, a recent alum, with an opportunity to reach for academic excellence even though he has dyslexia.  Empowering children with the tools and confidence to know that they can achieve their full potential by understanding how their brains work, is a gift that he wants to safeguard for others.  It changed the trajectory of his son’s life and he knows it has the power to do so for countless others.