Tom is currently a full-time Visiting Faculty member at the Manning School of Business at UMass Lowell. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in New Venture Planning & Implementation, Managing Innovation, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management. He is also actively engaged in mentoring student teams interested in starting new ventures and expanding the innovation and entrepreneurship programs on campus for students, researchers and faculty.
In addition, Tom is also Vice President, Business Development for Product Genesis, a Cambridge, MA – based strategic innovation management consulting company that works with Global 1000 clients to develop systematic and analytical approaches to delivering customized, high impact, technology-based innovation. In this role, Tom works directly with senior executives from a range of industries to guide them through the process of identifying, developing and commercializing innovative new business opportunities.
Prior to Product Genesis, Tom was Director, Business Development for TIAX, LLC, a Cambridge, MA – based technology processing company that transforms emerging innovations into technology platforms ready for interactive hand-off to established companies. TIAX’s primary technology areas included energy & energy storage systems, advanced materials / nano-materials, green chemistry and building / appliance systems. In his role reporting to TIAX’s President, Tom focused on identifying and developing new business opportunities for TIAX, including technology development and commercialization partnerships with established companies, marketing partnerships with industry organizations and research partnerships with university labs.
Prior to TIAX, Tom spent 14 years at Cisco Systems, Inc. in sales, business development and consulting roles. Most recently, Tom was a Senior Business Development Manager within the Technology Center Group, an internal advanced technology and market opportunity incubator for Cisco. In collaboration with Technology Center’s advanced engineering team, Tom focused on identifying and developing emerging technology and market opportunities for Cisco.
Previously at Cisco, Tom held leadership roles in the technical sales organization on the Enterprise, Service Provider and Channel teams. Prior to Cisco, Tom was a senior network consultant for Bolt Beranek and Newman’s (BBN’s) Systems and Technologies Division in Cambridge, MA and a system engineer for GTE Government Systems in Needham, MA.
Tom holds a B.S.E.E. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, M.S. Computer Engineering from Boston University and M.S. Management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
In addition, Tom is a Board Member for the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, a mentor with MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service (VMS), a member of the Research Advisory Board for the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s (MTC) John Adams