Tom is a founding partner of Cartesian Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on emerging companies and markets. Tom also co-founded Advent International, a global private equity firm, where he served as executive vice president and COO from 1984 to 1998. During that period, he served on the firm’s Investment Committee and Board of Directors, and assisted in the formation and operation of 26 affiliated private equity firms around the world.
Tom previously served as vice president of international operations at The Allen Group, a NYSE-listed manufacturer of capital equipment, automotive parts, and consumer products. Tom also co-founded and worked as COO of Thrasos, Inc., a pharmaceutical development firm that uses combinatorial and computational chemistry technology to validate early stage biological targets and accelerate the development of new therapeutics.
Tom has served on advisory boards for Princeton, Cornell, and Olin College of Engineering. He holds engineering degrees from Princeton and Cornell, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.