THOMAS SPERRY

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THOMAS SPERRY
Advisor, EIR, Venture Capital, East Coast Ecosystem, SaaS, IOT, Diversity & Inclusion

Tom Sperry is currently an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University and recent graduate of Harvard Business School OPM 55 class. He co-founded and is managing director of Rogue Venture Partners, a venture capital firm investing in historically under-capitalized regions, with particular expertise in ESG and IoT ventures and a total of 35 deals with 14 exits. Earlier, Tom began his career at Microsoft where he was a founding member of the Games Division.

Tom has a passion for working with under-served communities and frontier markets. He is currently working with the World Bank to develop an entrepreneur and investor ecosystem in Palestine, previously worked with global humanitarian aid NGO Mercy Corps to build the first start-up accelerator in the Gaza Strip, and launched a fund to invest in companies founded and led by women.