Tom is Co-President and Director of First Green Partners, a venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in technologies related to energy, chemicals, advanced materials, and agriculture. Tom has spent the past 20 years working with venture backed start-ups as a venture capitalist and a research analyst. He currently serves as a board member for First Green portfolio companies Monolith Materials, Rivertop Renewables, Digital H2O, and Trelys. In 2000, as co-founder and general partner of BlueStream Ventures, Tom helped raise $280 million in capital from institutional and individual investors. BlueStream focused on investments in the communications, enterprise and infrastructure software, storage, and wireless markets. Tom holds a B.A. in math from St. Olaf College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.