Leadership

Tom has worked exclusively in financial services and financial technology for over 20 years as a senior executive, Founder, CEO, and Chairman. 

Tom is an industry thought leader on the future of financial services and the convergence of wealth management and banking solutions. 

He is known for his skills at aligning stakeholders around a common mission, vision and purpose. Tom is a proven leader at building teams and at driving the proper adoption of new products and new technologies. 

Key highlights:

1. Entrepreneurial leadership: 

• Founder, CEO and Head of Content, Anasova, Inc
• Built Supernova Technology, a SaaS company from the kitchen table to a global team that provides critical infrastructure to some of the nation's largest financial services firms 
  • 101 on the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies

1. Critically acclaimed author & speaker: NYT best-selling author of four books, frequent keynote speaker throughout wealth management and banking industries, featured in TV, radio, and print media including New York Times, Bloomberg, Fox, Washington Post, CNBC among many others
2. Brings the perspective of a financial advisor: 5x recognized Barron’s Top 1200 Financial Advisor, On Wall Street magazine “40 under 40”, retired as an advisor with $1 billion in assets under management, $6 million in annual team recurring revenue 
3. Thought leadership: Nominated by Wiley for the McKinsey / Financial Times Book of the Year. Israel National Radio said during an interview that he is "perhaps a future winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics." 
4. Product leadership: Key contributor to over $50 billion in lending balances and over $150 billion in lending commitments across multiple firms

Tom is the Founder and Chairman of two financial technology platforms, Anasova and Supernova Technology.

Anasova is an online marketplace for personal finance. Anasova provides a high-quality, single access-point to a comprehensive network of personal financial advice and solutions. We deliver family-office quality advice and solutions to a broader segment of the market, at a fraction of the cost.

Tom is the Founder and former CEO and Chairman of Supernova Technology and Supernova Lending. Supernova is a fin-tech company that delivers an end-to-end, cloud-based, SaaS wealth management lending platform that includes loan origination, loan servicing, payment processing, and risk monitoring. Clients include several of the largest banks, brokerage, and insurance firms in the country 

Prior to working in technology, Tom worked in investment banking and wealth management for Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley where he served as Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. 

Tom has been interviewed in news media outlets around the world. He is a regular speaker at events throughout the financial services industry and considered the foremost expert on the importance and power of managing both assets and liabilities as a part of a common financial plan. He is an emerging featured speaker on The Future of Money and the Future of Financial Services. 

Tom has his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.S.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. He obtained his Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) designation from The University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School and is a former Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC) which he earned from the College for Financial Planning.

• The Value of Debt (Wiley, 2013) 
• The Value of Debt in Retirement (Wiley, 2015) 
• The Value of Debt in Building Wealth (Wiley, 2017) 
• Money Without Boundaries - How Blockchain Will Facilitate the Denationalization of Money (Wiley, 2019)