Tom chairs BakerAvenue’s Executive Committee, is a member of the Investment Committee and works closely with senior executives to define and drive the firm’s strategic roadmap. He leads several functional areas including Family Office Services, Operations, HR, Finance, Compliance and Technology and takes tremendous pride in making BakerAvenue the best company to work with and to work at!

Tom was most recently Chief Operating Officer at ICONIQ Capital. Prior to ICONIQ, he was Partner, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Operations at Wetherby Asset Management. Tom also held a number of executive and management roles at Wells Fargo’s Wealth Management Group and has extensive experience in the start-up world raising $35mm in Series A and Series B funding to start MiFund, an international cloud-based FinTech company. Tom is a software developer by trade having spent several years managing US and international software development teams at SS&C / Advent in the mid to late 1990s and credits his disciplined approach to solving problems and arriving at creative solutions to Management Consulting where he started his career.

Tom holds a B.A. from UCLA and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley, Hass School of Business. Tom is a proud US Army veteran having served in Psychological Operations (PSYOP) in the US Army.

Making impact

Tom is proud of how he’s helped the underserved immigrant population in Marin thrive. As a former board member at Canal Alliance, Tom supports the same organization that helped his family when he immigrated to the United States in the 1970s.

A secret about Tom

Not exactly like Doogie Howser, Tom started kindergarten when he was three. He feels it was because he was smart. His parents stick to the story that it was an opportunity to get one of their four children out of the house.