Drew Thorn

Drew Thorn was proud and very lucky to grow up on a dairy farm in upstate New York a few miles from Vermont. The hard work and play helped shape his character. He attended Tamarac High School which was small enough that everyone knew each other and remain close even to this day. He went on to join Alpha Gamma Rho and graduate from Cornell University.

His professional life is marked by transformation. He began in the farm equipment business and migrated in the early 80s to the nascent personal computer industry. Next, he learned about smart cards, a credit card-sized plastic card with a computer chip to store information. He transitioned this expertise to manage the global migration from magnetic stripe to smart card technology at MasterCard.

He has been fortunate to have traveled across the globe. Working on six continents and has logged over one million actual miles on United Airlines alone. He has lived in multiple cities including, Manhattan, Chicago, Palo Alto, and Sydney Australia. He has been in 49 of the 50 states, Alaska is still on the bucket list.

Beyond his passion to write. Drew enjoys gardening, cows, woodworking and used to love travel – today travel is just hard.

He is very proud of his family. Judy is a college English professor, son John a commercial truck driver and daughter Lizzy is a Captain in the Army currently stationed in Vicenza, Italy. All doing incredible things.

Transitioning again, today he is loving the freedom of writing novels where the only limits are what you can imagine. He lives with his family in the Ozarks of Missouri enjoying the calm of Midwest life.

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MEMBER OF

International Thriller Writers

Missouri Writers Guild

Springfield Writers Guild

Alpha Gamma Rho

AUTHOR

"The Pinnacle Club", Thornebrook LLC, Copyright 2019

CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

“Smart Cards – Seizing Strategic Business Opportunities”, McGraw-Hill, Copyright 1998

“Smart Card: The Global Journal of Advanced Card Technology”, Global Projects Group, Copyright 1996

“Smart Cards: The Global Information Passport” by Jack Kaplan, December 1995

“The Movement and Physiological Effect of Indoleacetic Acid Following Point Applications to Root Tips of Zea mays”

Physiologia Plantarum: Volume 36, Issue 4, April 1976

PATENTS

US Patent: 5,705,798 System and method for processing a customized financial transaction card. Filed December 16, 1994

​ assigned to MasterCard International.

Email Drew Thorn: drew@drewthorn.com