Mr Thomas R Baruch

KANDO id: 14582

Bio

Tom Baruch is the Founder of Formation8 Partners. Tom formed CMEA Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in energy, IT, life science companies, in 1988 with New Enterprise Associates. Earlier in his career, Tom worked at Exxon Mobil for 12 years, eventually leaving as President of the Exxon Materials Division. After Exxon, Tom founded Microwave Technology, Inc. where he served as CEO for 6 years before founding CMEA Capital, a fund with $1.2 billion under management. Currently, Tom serves as Chairman of the Board of Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS) and Intermolecular, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMI). He also currently serves on the boards of CNano Technologies, Foro Energy and Wildcat Discovery Technologies. Tom is a member of Obama’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE), where he advises the U.S. Department of Commerce and the White House on science and technology innovation, a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Council of Competitiveness, and a member of the Steering Committee of its ESIS (Energy, Security, Innovation and Sustainability) Initiative and the U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative. He is also a member of the “Brain Trust” of the ARPA-E program within the U.S. Department of Energy. Tom holds a JD from Capital University and a BS degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


Career


Formation8 Partners LLC - founder


M34 Capital Inc - founder

Investment company commercializing the most promising technologies seeded by federally funded research.

CMEA Capital - founder

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