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Margaret Ellison, advisor (synthetic persona)Senior advisor, founder and executive practice, New YorkAbout $820M across 183 households; four relationships above $50M; 7 of those households are in this prototypeWho's who

Thornbury household

Business owner. $5M+. $23.1M. Illiquid operating stake, near-term liquidity need against marketable assets.

Book

K. Thornbury, 58 and L. Thornbury, 56. Liquidity covers 6 months of 24 wanted; single name 77% against the family's 80% rule. 2 opportunities are on the list.

Compare the options

Advice state against Liquidity, Longevity, Legacy

StrategyFundedTargetCoverageDriving assumption
Liquidity6 months24 months
Gap 18 months
Near-term capital call on the operating business
Longevity$5M$9M
Gap $4M
Sale of the business in 5 to 7 years
Legacy$0$4M
Gap $4M
Succession to two children

Holdings

HoldingValueWeight
Operating business stake (illiquid)$17.8M77%
Diversified core model$5M22%
Cash$300K1%

Single-name exposure 77% of investable assets.

IPS constraints and persons

  • At most 80% in any one stock
  • Keep 12 months of cash before locking money up
  • Risk level at most 4 of 5

Persons (2): K. Thornbury, primary; L. Thornbury, spouse. Each person counts separately toward the retail-investor threshold.

People

  • K. Thornbury, 58 (primary)
  • L. Thornbury, 56 (spouse)

How to work with this client

  • Channel: email (Firm default)
  • Best time: Early morning, before the plant opens (Client setting)
  • Notes: full (Firm default)
  • Escalate unsigned forms after: 14 days (Firm default)
All settings and where they come from

Contact history and team notes

  • Call, 14 days ago: Discussed the company's late-stage funding round
  • Client service associate, today: K. Thornbury's CFO emailed the capital call notice this morning.

Open tasks

  • Succession planning with the estate attorney (Advisor, due in 21 days)
  • Model the sale scenario for retirement (Wealth strategist, due in 14 days)

Paperwork

  • due Standing wire instructions for capital calls (1 days open)
All paperwork

Service requests

  • Money movement “Please wire $1.2M to the fund for the capital call on the 15th.”
All service requests

Documents this client's view is grounded in

  • Managing single-name concentration (research note, prototype corpus day 3)
  • Sizing a Liquidity strategy (research note, prototype corpus day 2)

Composite persona: built from

Invented name and figures inside published ranges. Who's who

Money elsewhere, and the next conversation

Nothing on file says money is held elsewhere; wallet share reads as 100%. Wallet share

Next conversation: $1.2M capital call due in 60 days. Who to call

Draft for you: "Hi K. Thornbury, something on your file is worth a conversation: $1.2m capital call due in 60 days. I have the options ready to walk through."

Open opportunities

  • Expected cash outflow: $1.2M capital call in 60 days. Evidence · Proposals
  • Late-stage funding round recorded for the operating business. Evidence