Primary Job Title Advisor Primary Organization 
New Mexico Community Capital
Location Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States Regions Western US Gender Male
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Tom previously served as the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico foundation where he successfully led a $25million capital campaign. Since coming to Santa Fe, Tom has developed New Mexico Creates (www.newmexicocreates.org), an economic development initiative creating market links for New Mexico artists and artisans.
He is the
co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. Before coming to Santa Fe Tom was director of Aid to Artisans, an international artisan enterprise development NGO. Previous to that he was at the Mystic Seaport Museum where he created the Mystic Maritime Gallery, which led to opening new markets for maritime artists and eventually spawned six for-profit gallery enterprises across the US.
The market for maritime art grew by several times as did the prices for maritime artists work. He started a graphics enterprise, Mystic Maritime Graphics, publishing prints, posters and books. Tom created New England clambakes as a catering business as Mystic Seaport Museum. He holds a MBA from Columbia University and BFT from the Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird).
