 In 1991 he was chosen by the "Philadelphia Business Journal" as one of '40 Business Leaders Under 40'.He and his wife Rebecca McKillip Thornburgh, a Wharton-MBA turned children's book author/illustrator, have lived in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia since 1996.Their two daughters, Blair and Alice, now in their twenties, were born and raised there and attended and graduated from Germantown Friends School.