Tom has been an active private asset investor for well over a decade. After a successful career on Wall Street, he founded Ballast Rock in 2018 as a vertically integrated real estate investment firm.

By building an exceptional team and leveraging their collective experience in risk mitigation, operational excellence, regulatory compliance and with a relentless focus on our investors, Tom and the team have grown Ballast Rock into a diversified financial services company. Ballast Rock currently comprises:

1. Ballast Rock Asset Management: both real estate and venture capital asset management, empowering individual investors with democratized access to private investments;

2. Ballast Rock Capital: a FINRA regulated broker/dealer;

3. Ballast Rock Private Wealth: an SEC registered investment advisor providing bespoke wealth management advice; and

4. The Ballast Rock Foundation: a charitable foundation focused on alleviating housing insecurity in our community.

Prior to founding Ballast Rock, Tom spent fourteen years working in finance. Most recently, he concluded nine years at Goldman Sachs & Co. as a trading desk head on the New York Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities trading floor. His international career at both Goldman Sachs and HSBC, led him to live and work in New York, London, Dubai, and Sao Paulo. He has headed multiple desks primarily focused on structured finance, complex derivative transaction execution, and institutional investor marketing.

Tom lives in Boca Raton, Florida with his wife and two young children. He received an MA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

​Licenses: Series 24, 7 & 63