Mr. Thomas (Tom) Tisch (BS'61 ENG)

Tom Tisch is retired from operating roles, venture capital and private investing. His experience spans technology start-ups to public companies engaged in communications, networking, computing and applications hardware and software. Funds that he helped manage made such first investments as 3Com & Software Publishing and Stac Electronics and later investments in Netrix Communications, Stratacom. He also was Vice President of eTrade in its early days with 25 people and 3% per week growth. Mr. Tisch began work as an engineer at Hewlett Packard and was on the small team that built HP's very first computer in the mid-1960s. He holds a B.S. from Caltech (1961), an M.S. in EE from Stanford ('62) and an M.B.A. also from Stanford.