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Tom founded and sold his own music entertainment company and is recognized as an entrepreneurial leader who combines strategic discipline with reliable execution. Hammond has raised capital and completed mergers and acquisitions for several venture-funded companies and has delivered results in both high-growth and mature company environments. Previously, Tom was the Chief Financial Officer at Churchill Coatings Corporation, one of the nation’s leading producers of pre-primed lumber. Upon joining the company, Tom completed a reorganization to create a more favorable corporate structure for raising capital and then drove the process to raise the company’s first round of outside capital in 20 years. Prior to joining Churchill Coatings, Tom was Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Business Development at Acallto, Inc., a technology provider that enabled Web sites to serve telephone contact within the enterprise. Tom raised venture-seed capital for product development and marketing and negotiated and closed the company’s first enterprise sale. Tom was the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for WinWin Technologies, Inc., an international data profiling and personalization technologies company with operations in the U.S., U.K., Norway, Italy and South Africa. He spearheaded the raising of venture capital to develop WinWin’s data profile network. Earlier in his career, Tom spent four years as a lender in BankBoston’s Media & Communications Group. Tom holds a BA from Dartmouth College in political science and an MBA from The Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA in finance, entertainment and entrepreneurship. | 