Tom is the President of Somerset Shore Associates, Inc. He is also Executive Director of GPSI Holdings, LLC - a wholly owned portfolio company of Falconhead Capital, LLC located in New York City

From 2008 to 2009, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Resources Connections, Inc. (NASDAQ: RECN) where he also was as an Independent Director on the Audit, Compensation and Governance Committees of its Board for four years. Prior to founding Somerset Shore in 2005, Tom was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Marketing Services Division of Cendant Corporation, where he worked for more than 10 years. There, he managed and integrated the company’s three direct marketing units (Trilegiant Corp. Progeny Marketing Innovations and cims global - now collectively Affinion Group Holdings), which comprised one of the largest affinity marketing enterprises in the world with revenues exceeding $1.5B and EBITDA of $280M annually. Before retiring from the company in the fall of 2005, Tom led the strategic divestment of that division in a sale to private equity firm Apollo Management, LP for proceeds in excess of $1.8B.

Prior to that, Tom was Chairman and CEO of the Financial Services Division of Cendant Corporation, where he managed Jackson-Hewitt Tax Services, the second largest tax preparation firm in North America with annual revenues of more than $200M. In June 2004, he led the 100% Initial Public Offering of that company on the NYSE (JTX) which raised more than $800M in proceeds for it’s former parent, Cendant. In its first two years trading, the company’s stock more than doubled.

Before assuming that position, he was Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at Cendant, where he led the corporate functions of the company on a global basis. Among the departments reporting to him were human resources, information technology, marketing, business development, customer service centers, telecommunications, facilities, corporate real estate, and convention planning. He also managed the company’s corporate aviation department. He served as the senior management representative to the Compensation and Policy Committees of Cendant’s Board of Directors, headed the company’s Pension Committee and served as the Founder and Chairman of the Cendant Charitable Foundation. Tom was also Chairman and CEO of Advance-Ross Industries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cendant involved in the fabrication and installation of industrial electrostatic precipitators and biofiltration devices He led the sale of that unit to private equity firm Chartwell Investments in 2004.

Also at Cendant, he held the positions of EVP, Corporate Services, SVP Human Resources and was VP of HR for HFS Inc. (Hospitality Franchise Systems - Cendant’s predecessor). Prior to that, Tom was the director of labor relations for the Nabisco Biscuit Company and also worked for several years at the Pepsi-Cola Company.

He has extensive international experience, having negotiated large scale outsource, joint venture and partnership deals throughout Western and Eastern Europe, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Australia, South Africa, Thailand, China and Japan. Academically, Tom holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from Rutgers University and a Master of Science (MS) degree from Purdue University.

He is also Non-Exective Chairman of Hudson Crossing, LLC and a member of the Boards of Nor1 Inc. (estandby.com), TAI, Inc. and Cabana Cachaca, LLC.