Bio

Aaron Faust is a Founding and Managing Partner of Third Leaf Partners. He oversees underwriting, investment strategy, and on-going management of Third Leaf’s portfolio. He serves on the boards of Blackberry Farm, a 4,200 acre Relais & Chateaux property in Tennessee, and Twin Farms, home to a 20 room Relais & Chateaux property in Vermont. He also serves on the boards of WineBid, the largest online wine auction site, and ENTER.Sake, an independent producer of premium sake in Japan, and is a founder and director of Protea Financial, which provides accounting and bookkeeping services to small- and medium-sized businesses. Prior to founding Third Leaf, he was a founding partner of Terroir Capital, which owns, operates and manages select high-end resort and winery assets globally and served as a Managing Partner until the end of 2011. There, he served on the board of the California Lodging Industry Association, as well as the boards of past investments, including Meadowood Napa Valley, the Napa Valley Reserve, Sandhi, and Leviathan. In September 2017, he returned to become the sole Manager of Terroir Capital, though he is not involved in the company’s day-to-day operations. Aaron worked previously at CSI Capital Management, helping to oversee non-public investments, and before that, as a corporate attorney. Aaron received his undergraduate degree in Political Science with Distinction in General Scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley and is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the State Bar of California.