Tom is the Director of the EBS Global Incubator, overseeing an integral part of the University's commercialisation offering. Tom is an Assistant Professor of Business Performance at Edinburgh Business School, a fellow of Advance HE (FHEA), a member of CMI, a serial entrepreneur, and a technology consultant. Tom's expertise in capability maturity modelling, particularly technology and manufacturing readiness for investment, underpins the EBS Global Incubator's capacity to commercialise research outputs, scale-up technology start-ups, and accelerate their sustainable growth.

Tom is the founder and academic lead of the EBS Practice Excellence Network (PEN). PEN organises and coordinates experiential learning and knowledge exchange (KE) projects between students/staff, businesses, and researchers while developing and managing a collaborative talent pool. PEN provides students with practical consultancy experience with real clients and solves real business problems. The British Academy of Management highly commended his global teaching team. 

Tom is a Technology and Manufacturing Readiness (TRL & MRL) consultant. He has assessed the readiness for investment in start-up technologies, including developing technical product plans and actionable strategic business roadmaps for scaling up UK start-ups and accelerating their sustainable growth. He co-founded Vyne Analytics Ltd, commercializing his research-based capability analytics tool to measure, track and develop investment readiness in startups and reduce risk for investors and funding bodies. Tom holds several company directorships and co-founded start-up companies in Music Production, IT & Data Analytics, and Logistic Service, maintaining strong links to the international start-up community and working with innovative businesses and entrepreneurs.

Over the last decade, Tom has been awarded for excellence in research and practice by various public and private sector bodies (i.e., ELUPEG, James Watt Scholarship, British Academy of Management). Tom's research combines the fields of Business Management and Cognitive and Behavioural Science. His research studies the dynamics between organisational controls, human behaviour, and business performance. Tom's research uses quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods designs to explain observable real-world phenomena.