Responsible for all business development activity for 2012 and our Legacy programme Building A Brilliant Future and the BIG Initiative.

In his current role Tom is responsible for all Business Development opportunities in and around London 2012 – this includes managing relationship with LOCOG and the Olympic family and the major adjacent opportunities including Cisco’s London 2012  Legacy programme Building A Brilliant Future programme and the British Innovation Gateway (BIG) to drive innovation across the UK.

Tom has spent 8 years in Cisco Enterprise sales running a variety of vertical sales teams in the Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Aerospace and Hi-tech sectors and running the Manufacturing, Retail, Transport and Business Services Operation in the UK and Ireland. In these roles, he took a keen interest in the Cisco partner and Outsource relationships across the whole vertical to ensure that Cisco had a broad range of talented and skilled partners to assist in our sector development, as well as working closely with a number of the Global teams on accounts like Ford, GSK and Oracle.

Tom then spent 2 years responsible for the Cisco Channel team focused on Cisco’s IT Services and Outsourcing partners in the UK and Ireland.

Prior to joining Cisco, Tom worked for GPT Telecommunications and Timeplex in a variety of sales, sales management and Sales Director roles. Tom has worked in the networking and communications industry for 25 years.

He is a keen runner, cyclist and skier and also enjoys playing a bit of tennis. He is married with 2 children.

Olympic experience includes attending the Montreal games in 1976 to support the British Modern Pentathlon team (his father was Chairman of Army Modern Pentathlon Team who provided team members) and was fortunate to see them secure team Gold for GB in Olympic Stadium in Montreal.