Tom has over 20 years of terrestrial and satellite communications entrepreneurial and investment experience. Currently Tom serves as a Senior Vice President of Viasat, Inc., and as the President of Viasat Satellite Ventures, LLC an entity established in late 2007 to commercialize the development of next generation satellite broadband. Prior to joining Viasat in early 2008, Tom spent seven years as the CEO and a founder of WildBlue Communications. During his tenure at the company, WildBlue raised half of a billion dollars, built and launched their own state-of-the-art Ka-band satellites and developed the technology and infrastructure necessary to support a nationwide service business supplying two-way high speed Internet into rural America. Prior to founding WildBlue, Tom served as the VP of Advanced Technology at Cable Television Laboratories (“CableLabs”), an industry-wide research and development consortium of the cable industry. At CableLabs, Tom was responsible for the creation of the world-wide standard DOCSIS cable modem (and associated patented technology) that serves as the technical foundation for almost 100 million cable modems world wide.

Tom currently serves as a founding partner in TimesArrow Capital, a high tech venture investing firm in Colorado, on the technical advisory board for the Telecommunication Engineering Masters program at CU and is a founding member of Governor Bill Ritter’s Colorado Innovation Council. Tom holds a Masters of Engineering in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado and an MBA (with distinction) from the Harvard Business School.

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