As Director for the Americas at Sustainalytics, Tom leads the team focused on sustainable financing, ESG Ratings, performance benchmarking, and impact reporting. Tom has held senior roles on the buy and sell side of capital markets including investment banking, and asset management. Tom is active in the advancement of sustainably themed financing and was recently a contributor to the UNGC working group for the establishment of Blue Blonds as an instrument to support Sustainable Ocean Business, as well as advocating for sustainable bonds to be utilized in support of reconciliation and economic inclusion for Canada's First Nations. Over the past several years Tom has been involved in initiatives to support blended finance solutions in emerging market infrastructure, closing the gap between vital development and private capital. He is a founding partner of EMIF Group, established to provide sub-national governments in emerging economies with the capital and direction to develop critical urban infrastructure that is bankable for global private capital. In cooperation with UN Habitat and its Cities Investment Facility (CIF), EMIF Group is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and catalyzing infrastructure development required under the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) to meet 2030 SDG targets. In his private life, Tom is passionate about healthy oceans, and supporting local artists. He has served on the board of the Ontario Crafts Council and volunteered at the Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital in Toronto.