Tom is the West Coast Representative for Cardinal Partners. Prior to joining Cardinal, Tom was Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Partech International. Tom has over 30 years of investment experience with a track record of helping entrepreneurs create significant and successful enterprises. His investments include Ascend Communications (ASND acquired by Lucent Technologies), Automated Healthcare (acquired by McKesson), Medicode (acquired by United Healthcare) and VISICU (EICU acquired by Philips). He is currently serving as a board of director of TelaDoc, a telehealth services providing doctor consults to consumer.

Tom has served on the boards of U.C. Berkeley's Entrepreneurs

Forum and the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC). He is an active member of the Health Management Academy (HMA), a founding member of Healthcare IT Advisory Group to State of California, and an active supporter of the University of San Francisco's Entrepreneurship Program. As an alumnus, Tom maintains close ties with Stanford's Business School, as well as Harvard University, where he serves as class secretary and started the I3 Harvard College Innovation Challenge (undergraduate business plan competition).

Tom received an undergraduate degree in Economics from Harvard University, an MS in Accounting from New York University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.