A thirty year venture capitalist with extensive public company board and committee experience, Thomas J. Toy is Co-founder and Managing Director of PacRim Venture Partners, a Menlo Park-based professional venture capital firm specializing in early stage technology companies. Tom is also a Managing Director of Startup Capital Ventures and a Venture Partner/Advisor for ICCP SBI Venture Partners.

Tom has invested in early stage diversified IT, CleanTech and Healthcare companies. He has served on boards of directors of a number of public and private companies, for which his expertise includes general business, finance, marketing and sales, operations, corporate governance, special committees, investigations and audit committee. Tom’s current and past companies include:

  • Hanwha Q CELLS (NASDAQ: HQCL): Boardmember 2007-2015, former Chairman of the Audit Committee and Corporate Governance Committee
  • UTStarcom (NASDAQ: UTSI): Boardmember 1995-2012, former Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Audit, Corporate Governance and Compensation Committees, former venture investor
  • White Electric Designs (NASDAQ: WEDC, acquired by Microsemi): Boardmember 1989-2010, former Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee, former lead venture investor
  • SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR, then partially acquired by Total SA): former co-lead venture investor
  • Catalina Marketing (NYSE: POS; acquired): former venture investor
  • Physiometrix (NASDAQ: PHYX, then acquired by Hospira): former lead venture investor
  • LifeCell (NASQDAQ: LIFC, then acquired by Kinetic Concepts): former lead venture investor
  • SyStemix (NASQDAQ: STMX, the acquired by Sandoz/Novartis): former lead venture investor
  • CafePress (NASDAQ: PRSS): Boardmember 2000-2006; former lead venture investor

Previously, Tom was a Partner at SmartForest Ventures and Technology Funding. Tom started his career at Bank of America, where he worked for seven years.

Tom graduated from Northwestern University with B.A and MBA degrees. He taught the New Venture Finance course at San Francisco State’s MBA school, and he is a regular volunteer panelist for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce’s Job Forum.