Tom is a dual qualified accountant who has held Ministerial appointments in all four countries of the United Kingdom and had offices in Paris, Brussels and Beijing so is used to international markets. He has worked in the energy, health, education, water, agriculture, environment, legal and manufacturing sectors. He has more than 32 years’ experience working at Board level in the public, private and third sectors as a Chair, NED, Chief Executive, Finance Director and Commercial Director giving him the ability to look at a commercial issue from any range of perspectives.
 
Currently Tom is a Scottish Government Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Scottish Government Audit and Assurance Committee managing the Governance of their £68 billion annual budget. Tom is also Board member for the Public Chairs Forum who are about to merge with their sister organisation The Association of Chief Executives based at the Institute for Government engaging into the heart of government across Westminster and Whitehall.
 
Previously he was Chair of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority, a Non-Executive Board Member for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (where he was Chair of the Departmental Audit Committee and Lead NED for The Union), a Non-Executive Board Member for the Northern Ireland Government Department of Finance (where he was a Member of the Departmental Audit Committee, Chair of NI Statistics & Research Agency Audit Committee and Chair of the Land and Property Services Audit Committee) and a NED on the HMRC Audit Committee monitoring the governance of over £850bn of taxpayer revenue, which is vital to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in funding public services and stimulating the economy.
 
Passionate about developing people to their full potential, Tom always encourages them to think outside the box and be ambitious – something he brings to his work as a Criticaleye Board Mentor. He has considerable experience in mergers, demergers, financial and performance turnarounds together with transformational change and has considerable experience working in utilities and regulated industries. From much earlier in his career, he has experience of nationalisation as well as privatisation and invented the Telephone Call Centre.
 
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Certified Accountants, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and a Fellow of the Healthcare Finance Managers Association. Tom is a former goalkeeper who played for Oldham Athletic, from the days when goalkeepers did not all have to be giants. Passionate about cricket (he played against a young Michael Atherton and Tom’s hero Farokh Engineer the great Indian wicket keeper batsman) he has been a member of Worcestershire County Cricket Club for fifteen years.