Advisory Board

Thomas M. Dugan

Tom Dugan has been working in Information Technology for over 40 years in varying capacities from Field Technician to Senior Management.  As a parallel entrepreneur, Mr. Dugan started and sold two companies operating both organizations simultaneously for 5 years during which both organizations had astounding growth.  His first company, eSource Group, was ranked as Philadelphia’s 14^th Fastest Growing Company by the Philadelphia Business Journal.  Shortly thereafter, his second company, Recovery Networks, ranked 6^th on the Philly 100 in 2009 and was also on the list in 2010 and 2011; Recovery Networks was also the co-awardee for the Best Practices in Business Continuity along with Hewlett-Packard for its work in innovating recovery solutions.  The company was also honored as the country’s fastest growing urban companies by the ICIC (ranked #45 in USA.)  eSource and Recovery Networks were acquired in 2009 and 2013, respectively.

After successful exists of both his companies, in 2014, he was selected as the Director of Technology for the World Meeting of Families – Philadelphia 2015.  In this role, Mr. Dugan was the third person brought into the Executive Team who were responsible for managing all aspects of the largest World Meeting of Families Congress which included the first visit of Pope Francis to the United States.  Working with various public and private entities, his role was to prepare the City of Philadelphia for arrival of millions of visitors, tens of thousands of attendees, thousands of priests, hundreds of bishops, scores of archbishops, dozens of cardinals … and one Pope.

Mr. Dugan was most recently a Senior Director at Dell Technologies focused on Private Cloud Converged and Hyper-Converged architectures.  He sits on Advisory Boards for CTN Solutions, Prelude Systems, PayforEd and regularly advises businesses on growth and management strategies.  An active board member, he is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Neumann University in Pennsylvania and sits on the Student Affairs and Finance Committees as well as on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity (Montgomery and Delaware Counties) where he chairs the Finance Committee.

He was a frequent speaker on various topics, particularly virtualization and disaster recovery as well as small business startup and entrepreneurship.  He had been selected as a tiered member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) through its work with Asigra, Inc.  A constant advocate for business continuity, Mr. Dugan taught training courses for CompTIA, the leading industry education and certification organization including certifying executives and business owners for the Executive Certificate in Data Recovery and Business Continuity.  Mr. Dugan had also been selected to be on the American Partner Advisory Board for the Asigra corporation.  Additionally, Mr. Dugan has served as a technology judge in “Best of” competitions for Storage Magazine, TechTarget, VMWorld and SearchServerVirtualization.com.

Active in numerous activities, Mr. Dugan is a certified Rugby Coach and Referee; a member of the MS Leadership Class of 2004; co-founded, organized, and led the first VMware Technology User Group in the Philadelphia region.