Thomas Blum

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Mr. Thomas Blum serves as Venture Partner at Strategic Ventures & Research. Mr. Blum serves as Investor & Member at New York Angels. Mr. Blum serves as Senior Advisor & Partner at G.C. Andersen Partners. He is also an angel investor. Before joining G.C. Andersen Partners in 2006, Mr. Blum ran Channel Capital, a firm he founded in 2001 to provide venture capital and financial advisory services to emerging companies. Prior to Channel Capital, he was a Managing Director in the private equity firm, Columbia Financial Partners. Previously, Mr. Blum was also an investment banker with Salomon Brothers. and Bear Stearns. He also oversaw the Salomon Brothers' Japanese and Asian Financial Institutions activities. In the 1980s, Mr. Blum was deeply involved in the then-emerging commercial mortgage securitization market. Mr. Blum serves on the Board of Directors of Landauer Metropolitan, Supertron Technologies, SkyFuel, and Interactive Frontiers. In 2020 he finished a two-year assignment as an Innovation Advisor to NYSERDA with their Tech to Market Group. He is also an EIR at Stevens Institute of Technology. Mr. Blum received a BS in Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.