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Mr. Bijou began his career at General Electric Company, working in the plastics division and at GE Information Services Company. He left GE in 1982 to form Tigon Corporation with several associates. Tigon was a voicemail outsourcing company that was sold to Ameritech in 1988 at a substantial return and he remained with the Company until 1991. In 1992 Mr. Bijou became CEO of Advanced Telemarketing Corporation ("ATC"), a subsidiary of publicly traded NRP, Inc. By 1996, ATC was the only subsidiary of NRP. During Mr. Bijou's tenure, the market capitalization of NRP increased from $10 million to almost $400 million.
Since 1997, Tom Bijou has been CEO of BHM Associates, Inc. whose activities include mentoring and funding Technology companies. In connection with these BHM activities, Mr. Bijou served as Chairman of Knowledge Communications, Inc., an early pioneer in the distance learning marketplace and provided seed capital and arranged subsequent investment for Freestone Systems/LightSpeed, a Video Storage and Transmission development and IP licensing company. Both companies were sold with substantial returns to investors. | 