Thomas Cain

Thomas Cain

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CEO at Sustainability Partners LLC
Tempe, Arizona, United States

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    CEO
    Sustainability Partners LLC
    Apr 2016 - Current (10 years 1 month)
    Sustainability Partners (SP) permanently eliminates infrastructure deferred maintenance for municipalities, universities, schools, hospitals, and all areas of government. SP has pioneered a new way of delivering effective and impactful energy, water and fuel efficient systems by creating a national yet distributed unregulated utility to procure, maintain and own the devices. SP removes the traditional barriers and risks, enabling customers to implement the latest energy, water and fuel efficient technologies and realize immediate savings while retaining critical capital for more mission-specific needs.
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    Founder & President
    Giovanni Technologies
    Jan 2014 - Jan 2019 (5 years 1 month)
    Co-Developer with Giovanni Marradi of the Gini Notation licensed by VTech (world's largest educational toy manufacturer) for their children's edutainment music keyboard.
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    Chairman
    SkySong Venture Catalyst
    Nov 2010 - Sep 2016 (5 years 11 months)
    ASU Venture Catalyst equips high potential startups for success. The Catalyst assists university students, faculty and staff, as well as local and global companies, launch startups or accelerate existing ventures. Based at ASU SkySong, The Catalyst offers investor connections, technology road maps, go-to-market strategy consulting, mentoring opportunities, and several other programs and services, all designed to identify and develop investment-grade companies.
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    Founder & Managing Partner
    EFW Partners
    Sep 2010 - Jan 2019 (8 years 5 months)
    EFW Partners was a global investor in the basic resources critical for economic growth: energy, food, and water. They managed ESG capital on behalf of some of the world's largest family offices, foundations, and institutions. Taking a long-term view, developing proprietary viewpoints on major themes in the energy and resources markets was core to EFW's thesis. EFW research synthesized macroeconomic analysis with rigorous fundamental research on individual projects, companies and market segments. In 2019, EFW concluded it's 2nd fund and made final LP distributions.
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    Managing Partner & CoFounder
    SAIL Venture Partners
    Jan 2002 - Jun 2010 (8 years 6 months)
    Cain founded the firm in 2002 and served as lead investor for SAIL Fund 1 and Fund 2 anchored by JP Morgan. He left in 2010 with those funds reporting an audited 2 X Net Asset Value when the firm decided to reorganized into SAIL Capital and attempt raising a 3rd major fund.
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    Founder and CEO
    DIstribution Architects International Frontstep Mapix Infor
    Jan 1977 - Jan 2005 (28 years 1 month)
    DAI was a global leader in supply chain and distribution software. They developed, sold and installed DRP, forecasting, warehouse mgt., order entry, purchasing, credit mgt., G/L, A/P, A/R, financials, and transportation to run entire organizations such as Jorgensen Steel, Unisource, Xpedx, Black & Decker, Dairyland, WaWa, Kaman, Home Interiors, Associated Grocers, Blain Farm & Fleet, etc. Frontstep acquired DAI in 1999, Mapix acquired Frontstep in 2003, and Infor acquired Mapix in 2005 at which time When Cain retired as Chairman of the Acquisition Corp the firm had greenfield offices in 40 countries, 2,000 employees and software revenues of $200M.
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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Chairman of program for 4 years, Sloan/YPO Presidents Education
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Jan 2001 - Jan 2004 (3 years 1 month)
  • Harvard Business School
    7 Years HBS/YPO Presidents Education, Executive Education
    Harvard Business School
    Jan 1998 - Jan 2006 (8 years 1 month)
  • Arizona State University
    Bachelor’s Degree, Abstract Mathematics
    Arizona State University
    Jan 1971 - Jan 1976 (5 years 1 month)
    Activities and Societies: Studies in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Physics, BioChemistry, World Literature, & Music Theory