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Tom is a successful entrepreneur and investor with experience sitting on both sides of the boardroom table. He has over twenty-five years experience in communications systems, equipment, chipsets and software, and has been active in the high-tech start-up scene in the Washington metro area for over 15 years.
Tom also sits on the boards of portfolio companies Centice, Paratek, Princeton Optronics and Sennari.
In 1990, Tom founded Telogy Networks, a leader in providing embedded communications software products for wireless and IP networks. Telogy's award-winning products were proven market successes with world-class customers such as Cisco, Motorola, Samsung, Nortel, Alcatel and NEC. In 1998, Motorola purchased Telogy's digital cellular technology and development team for over $40M, and in 1999, Texas Instruments purchased Telogy for its leadership in embedded VOIP software for over $700M. Prior to joining Novak Biddle, Tom co-founded and became chairman of Cognio, a developer of spectrum management and MIMO technology for short-range wireless applications.
In 1995, he was recognized as the Joseph A. Sciulli "Entrepreneur of the Year" by the Maryland High Technology Council. Prior to Telogy, Tom was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Hughes Network Systems, a combination of M/A-Com DCC and Linkabit
Tom has patents relating to software, the Internet, and digital telephone systems, and he is the author of "Packet Switching" in McGraw Hill's Electronic Communications Handbook. Tom is on the Board of Visitors at the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland and he is the Chair of its Strategic Planning Committee. He's a member of IEEE and ACM, and he is an alumnus of Purdue University and the Executive Management program at MIT Sloan School. | 