Tom Patterson

Senior Vice President Of Corporate Development and strategy

2022 - Current

Head of Growth and Strategy

2020 - 2022

Lead Corp Dev, Incubating New Biz, Strategic Initiatives

Strategic Advisor

2016 - 2020

Strategic Advisor to leading human transformation and virtual coaching company. Betterup has raised over 550 million in funding from lightspeed, iconiq, salesforce, sapphire, threshold, wellington and serves many of the most iconic companies in the world.

Strategic Advisor

2020

Brightside is the pioneer in outcome driven financial care. Backed by A16z and Trinity Ventures.

Board Member

2014

Dale Carnegie is a world leader in public speaking and leadership training in leading enterprises as well as consumers. Tom is providing strategic coaching on digital innovation (Product, Sales, Strategy and Marketing) Member of the Governance, Compensation and Search Committee. Audit Committee Chairman.

Advisor

2015

Advisor/Investor to Survata, on demand market research to any target group for the worlds' biggest brands.

Mentor and Coach

2014

Coach and Mentor Enterprise Founders on Go To Market, Product Market Fit, Growth, Fundraising and Leadership. Alchemist is the leading enterprise business to business accelerator.

Advisor

2011

Advisor/Investor IDG Ventures which is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in New Media, E-Commerce and IT companies in the US.

Strategic Advisor

2020

Even Financial is the leading digital API acquisition platform for the Financial Industry backed by Goldman Sachs, American Express, Canaan Partners and North Point Ventures. Even Financial acquired Leaplife in April of 2020. Currently advising the executive team on integration, insurance, growth, product.

CEO and Founder

2016 - 2020

Leap Life is an emerging life insurance platform delivering the first multiproduct end to end digital experience. Leaplife is backed by RGA, NFX and Ridge Ventures. Leaplife was acquired by Even Financial in April of 2020

Advisor

2011 - 2019

Advisor to the one of the fastest growing and most successful games companies. Kixeye produces award winning games such as Desktop Defender, Backyard Monsters, Battle Pirates, and War Commander . Kixeye is backed by Trinity Ventures, LightSpeed Ventures, and Jafco.

Advisor

2013 - 2019

Fixya is the largest and fastest growing tech support service on the Internet. Fixya creates and fosters some of the most engaging and active communities on the Web that discuss, fix and recommend popular consumer products all the way to harder to find durables. Fixya is backed by the Mayfield Fund.