Tom is the legal practitioner director of Tom & Co Legal and is currently the Chair of DADAA, deputy chair of Technology for Ageing and Disability WA (TADWA), and on the board of the Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, Avivo and St Gerard’s Catholic Primary School. In 2023, Tom was nominated for the Lawyer of the Year Award by The Law Society of Western Australia and successfully won the title.

Tom has 46 years of lived disability experience with over 20 years of non-executive directors’ experience in disability, multicultural, and youth organisations. Tom regularly advocates for people with disability including representing NDIS participants at the AAT.

Prior to law, Tom was the principal consultant in a strategic development and management company based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for over eight years. Tom led a team across Southeast Asia to project manage and drive business development to define and deliver realtime insights on commercial opportunities in mining, agribusiness, and infrastructure projects.

Before moving to Southeast Asia, Tom accumulated diverse professional experience in business development, operations, and communications across multiple sectors, including state and national not-for-profit boards and Commonwealth government advisory councils.

Tom has a Bachelor of Law from the University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle) and speaks fluent Thai and Khmer languages.