Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2017
Assistant Vice President, Operations & Strategy, Business Development Bank of Canada
BDC Capital
Tom is Assistant Vice President for BDC Capital, the venture capital and private equity arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Prior to the BDC, he was a senior engagement manager at McKinsey & Co and a member of McKinsey’s global health practice group, where he gained extensive experience in development projects in Nigeria, Senegal, DRC, Pakistan, & Zambia. Tom spent time on sabbatical at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the leadership team in developing and executing their ambitious family planning objectives. Previously, Tom was with McCarthy Tetrault, the International Criminal Court, the OSCE mission in Kosovo, and the United Nations Assistance Mission to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. He is an alumnus of the Governor General’s Leadership Conference, and is a member of the board of governors of Presbyterian College in Montreal and the Global Health International Advisory Board of McGill University.
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