Tom Desmond, Senior Vice President, Soundview, is a New York City native, began his sales career at the Xerox Corporation after serving a tour of duty in The United States Navy. During his ten year stay at Xerox Tom held numerous management positions including responsibility for Major Accounts in New York City and recruitment and training of sales personnel for the Long Island Branch. His Xerox management career included responsibility for Government, Medical, and Education accounts and creation of a marketing and sales program for introduction of , at that time, Xerox's newest concept in duplicating - the 9200.

After Xerox Tom joined the Paper Industry working for International Paper Company initially as Manager of Merchant Sales and then a marketing position as Product Manager of Coated Papers.

From IP Tom moved to the distribution side of the Printing Paper industry functioning as Vice President of Sales for the New York Division of Alling and Cory Paper Company. His reputation in the industry grew and Tom Left Alling and Cory to become Corporate Executive Vice President of Sales for Ris Paper Company, a $500 million distributor of Fine Papers. During his 11 years at Ris Tom held various management positions including President of the New York Division and Executive Vice President of the Mid Atlantic Division.

Tom feels that his success' throughout his business career were strongly related to his ability to recruit, train, and mold the right people for the right job.