Tom leads the firm’s private corporate investment team and is also a member of Baupost’s Management Committee.  Prior to joining Baupost in 1993, Tom was a Managing Director in the investment banking group of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. and Dean Witter Capital Corporation, the firm’s private equity investment vehicle, and a broker at Warburg Paribas Becker, Inc. and Kidder Peabody & Co.  Tom is the chair of the Board of Trustees of The New England Conservatory of Music.  He is actively involved in several other not-for-profit organizations.  Tom graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a B.A. in Economics.