Tom's latest endeavor, Alinean, was founded in 2001 to develop software, methodologies and tools for accurately evaluating, presenting and measuring the value of IT investments using benchmarking and ROI analysis. Alinean specializes in helping companies align IT spending with short- and long-term business goals: increased revenue, employee productivity, customer satisfaction, market share and shareholder value. The company works closely with not only technology buyers, but solution providers and consulting firms, enabling them to justify IT purchases to CIOs across all sectors. The IT valuation methodology and tools have been adopted by many of the world's largest technology companies including Microsoft, IBM, HP, Intel and Dell, and many of the worlds leading consultancies and CIOs.

Tom's ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with Interpose, a company he founded to develop the first automated ROI and TCO analysis software for CIOs and IT vendors. Interpose was acquired by Gartner in 1998 and formed the foundation for Gartner's Measurement, ROI and TCO software solutions. Tom served Gartner as managing VP and was instrumental in the software becoming the industry standard for TCO assessment.

Tom holds several software patents, is a regular contributor to many technology publications, is a featured speaker at major IT and management conferences and has written several books on ROI and TCO analysis; his most recent is IT Value Chain Management -- Maximizing the ROI from IT Investments.