Tom Bird serves as a senior member of the investment team, supports operational management and is chair of the governance committee. Tom brings over 30 years of general management and investment experience. He has served on numerous boards and invested across a wide spectrum. In addition, Tom is founder and president of the multi family office FARM Capital Services LLC, where he created the FARM Fund as an early stage direct impact investment donor advised fund. Previously he was chairman and CEO of FARM, Inc., a venture backed Silicon Valley information management firm that provided data storage and retrieval services from 1988 until the company was sold in 1999. Tom is board chair of the GlobalGiving Foundation, and also serves on the board of Sanku, the investment committee of the Patient Capital Collaborative, and the University Council as a former trustee and investment committee member of the American University in Bulgaria. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College, an M.B.A from Stanford University, and a Master of Theological Studies degree with an emphasis on ethics from Harvard University.