During his career, Tom has led several large-scale digital transformation efforts, including cloud migrations for two different companies. While at Foundation Medicine, a large genomics diagnostic company, Tom led a migration to AWS as part of a strategy to support the rapidly growing business. He saw cloud as a catalyst for transforming the company into a more agile organization, one that would enable increased automation and the adoption of modern application practices such as DevOps. Two years later, Foundation Medicine had grown from $100 million to $500 million in revenue, spurring its acquisition by Roche.
For Tom, cloud creates opportunities for organizations that go far beyond compute and storage capabilities. For example, supported by the AWS cloud, Foundation Medicine was able to rapidly expand into Germany, then China. All in under two years, a rapid pace that would not have been possible before. But to see that opportunity, he had to go from thinking of cloud as just another data center to seeing it as an enabler of an agile business. It’s a philosophy he came to firmly believe in following his first cloud migration project with Wolters Kluwer.