Tom co-founded Bluewater in 2011 and has been active in private equity for over 30 years. Tom’s responsibilities range from deal origination and structuring to execution, monitoring and exit strategy evaluation. Tom is involved in investment activities throughout the entire energy industry, with particular expertise in industrial manufacturing, process control and systems automation, energy transition and storage and logistics. Tom has been actively involved in several investments throughout the Middle East within the manufacturing, engineering and construction, storage and logistics sectors as well as the emerging digital space. Across the Bluewater portfolio of twenty-five companies, eight have had a significant presence in the region. Before Bluewater, Tom served as Managing Director and, from 2006, Head of the London office and Chairman of First Reserve International. Tom holds an A.B. degree Magna Cum Laude in Economics from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Tom has served in recent years as a director on the boards of GES, Edge, Aquilex Corp., Dresser, Inc., Dresser-Rand Group, Inc., Quanta Services, Inc. and Bahamas Oil Refining Company International Limited (BORCO). Tom is currently on the board of Severn, Excellence Logging, IMServ, Galileo Technologies, Fox Innovation & Technologies and Authentix.