Tom Myers

I am an accomplished business leader with over two decades of experience building successful organizations from the ground up. I hold strong expertise in developing and executing successful business plans, driving business development efforts through sales, marketing, PR, and strategic partnerships, and effectively aligning teams with a common goal. 
 
Notable Accomplishments:
 
► Founding, scaling, and exiting Transcend Capital – After being downsized due to a merger, within weeks I co-founded my first company with other colleagues who had been terminated. We made our former employer our first client and went on to grow our business from $0 to profits and a successful exit.
 
► Founding V2R Ventures – I started my investment firm to help founders in all aspects of their business, including pre-seed, seed, and Series A funding, as well as advisory services. I love to engage with any passionate founder, but we also try to focus on historically under-served founders (e.g. female, minority, LGBTQ, veterans, rural, immigrant, differently abled, etc.) and small businesses ignored by banks and institutional investors.
 
► Purchasing, growing, and selling Tick Data – I was working in a small business unit of a much larger fintech company as the head of business development and our business was growing. However, our parent company got into financial trouble and filed for bankruptcy. Our business unit ended up in the hands of a foreign bank. My business partners and I were able to negotiate a management buyout of our business unit, and in less than three years, grow the company by 64% and sell it at a robust multiple.
 
► Founding and scaling DIH Solutions – In 2016, I started DIH to help capital market participants achieve better results in their research, trading, risk management, and compliance via complete and accurate data.
 
► Transforming The Birthday Wagon into Small Acts of Kindness – I co-founded this non-profit to provide birthday parties for children living in Austin area shelters. In 2021, a much larger national non-profit with the same mission approached us to take over the services we were providing. They had been promised a seven-figure donation by a wealthy celebrity living in Austin, but only if they provided birthday parties in Austin. In effect, they were putting us out of business. I pitched the idea, and my fellow board members agreed, to rebrand and expand our mission to deliver assistance to people in need. Since then, we have seen a dramatic increase in donations and have implemented multiple projects to help disadvantaged children.
 
Specialties:
 
► Marketing & Sales Strategy
► Operations, General Management
► New Product, Go-to-Market
► Team Building & Leadership
► P&L, Budgeting, Capital Planning
► Change-Management
► Strategic Analysis & Data Reporting
► Data Science & Modeling
► Pricing Strategy
► Customer Retention
► Executive Collaboration
 
When I’m not working, you can find me watching or playing sports (especially soccer), in the kitchen striving to improve my paella recipe, or listening to and playing all different genres of music.