Tom started his career as a software renegade in high school. Then he went legit, and founded Voice Courier Inc. (VCi) in 1991 to service the emerging Interactive Voice Response market. Tom led its expansion to over 100 employees in three countries, with revenue in excess of $20 million US annually. The VCi Group of Companies was profitable for each of the 12 years it was under his control, and was sold in the spring, 2005.

Tom now focuses efforts on carbon mitigation and is active in Cleantech venture capital, technology incubation and commercialization and public advocacy. Tom is the Cleantech Practice, Lead Advisor at the MaRS Discovery District and sits on the board of a number of clean energy companies and organisations, including Morgan Solar.

Tom's book Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our Word, is distributed by Greenleaf Book in the US, and Fitzhenry & Whiteside in Canada.

Tom holds a BSc in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, a MSc in philosophy of science from the University of London / London School of Economics and an MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto. You can read his thesis here. Tom is an Action Canada Fellow.

Tom speaks publicly about the issue because it is his belief that we have yet to have a serious, public conversation about the threat of climate change, and the economic opportunites afforded by the global transformation to a low-carbon economy.

Tom: "I'm really just a guy trying to slow our gallop toward an over-heated climate. Doing what I can with what I've got."