Tom Gafford

About Tom Gafford

Growing a business by creating and developing innovative technologies is the kind of challenge I enjoy most. My career has taken me to tech-focused companies in Mountain View and Fremont, CA, Colorado Springs, CO, Dallas, and Fort Worth, TX.In my most recent position, I co-founded and was the CTO for Guidepoint Systems. I built the strategic relationships and then turn the relationship over to someone within the company to grow. Annual revenues were $20 million when we sold the company in 2020.Prior to that, I was with AtRoad, now a Trimble company. I was in product marketing, then emerging business shortly before our IPO through Credit Susie. In this role I grew my line of business to over $100 million largely in part to two strategic partnerships I formed with Nextel (Now part of T-Mobile) and AT & T. One of the startup lines of business I took us into was Consumer Telematics.My first job out of college was as a programmer doing document conversion and database design In Fremont, CA. This organically led me to my second job at a startup in Mountain View where I was a sales engineer creating custom applications for our marque customers HP, Compaq, 3COM, and Oracle.I know a lot about software design, I’ve been a part of numerous electronics designs, and most of the time at Guidepoint I would take ownership for quality and design with our Automotive OEM partners. As with most industries there are quality audits, standards, and controls; having been in the automotive space for 20 years at the OEM level I know most of these well.SPECIALTIESStrategic Planning & Execution, P&L Oversight, Operations Management, Product Innovation & Development, Continuous Process Improvement, Performance Management, Technology Implementation, Root Cause Analysis, Complex Problem ResolutionPROFESSIONAL ATTRIBUTES Analytic | Intuitive | Creative | Collaborative | Ethical | Adaptable | Persuasive

Experience

1. Tekion Corp

   Present

Education

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  Economics

  1992 — 1996