VP of Marketing for Marmot Mountain LLC for the last 10 years, Tom previously held marketing and product development positions in the toy industry for Yes! Entertainment, the sugar industry for Spreckels Sugar, the packaged goods business for Nestle and Clorox, and he started his career in sales at Dow Chemical. An agricultural business graduate of the University of

Illinois, Tom also holds an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Managementat Northwestern.

Coaching youth sports for the last 14 years, Tom has coached over 45 youth baseball, basketball and soccer teams. When not coaching, Tom enjoys mountain biking, backpacking, climbing, kayaking, skiing and other outdoor sports. Tom and his wife Joan live in Santa Rosa, California with their boys Kevin and Jason, while their third boy Kyle attends college at UC Davis.