Tom is a Managing Director of Kinderhook Industries. In 1995, Tom joined Global Emerging Markets N.A., Inc. as a Director and founded GEM Investment Advisors, an investment advisory firm specializing in control private equity investing. Prior to GEM, Tom spent one year in Morgan Stanley's New York office as an analyst for chemical investment banking and then relocated to the Hong Kong office of Morgan Stanley where he managed the investment banking operations of Morgan Stanley in Indonesia. Tom graduated from Princeton University and the Woodrow Wilson School and received his MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and Henry Ford II Scholar.

Tom serves on the Board of Directors of Lodis Accessories, KN Rubber, THI and SMS Marketing Services. He has relevant investment experience in automotive, chemicals, consumer products, data services and light manufacturing.