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Tom is a founding Partner of Georgia Venture Partners, and is involved in all aspects of GVP investment activities. Tom is also founder and president of Life Science Partner. He is also a former partner with Fuqua Ventures (a life science and technology venture capital fund). His experience in disciplines ranging from biotechnology, business and marketing strategy, venture capital, and executive search provides the broad platform from which Life Science Partner serves life science companies. Tom previously held the position of Director, Commercial Development for SyStemix. There he was responsible for business development and marketing for the firm’s proprietary stem cell technology for bone marrow rescue of patients following high dose chemotherapy. He began his biotechnology career at Roche Diagnostics and Roche Molecular Systems. During his tenure at Roche, he developed and executed a global marketing plan for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostics technology, a Noble-prize winning solution for sleuthing out specific sequences of DNA and commercializing the tools to map the human genome. Tom earned a medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He holds an MBA and undergraduate degree from Duke University.