Tom is General Partner of Impact Capital as well as the Founder, Senior Counsel and Chairman of Board of Directors of The Bonadio Group, which he founded in 1978. Since that time, Tom has devoted his efforts to serving commercial companies in the Rochester area and helping the firm grow from two people to its present size of over 1,100 employees. Tom specializes in providing business advice to privately-held companies and their owners with a particular emphasis on helping privately-held companies maximize their value and return to shareholders. He works with a variety of industries including construction, manufacturing, professional services and real estate, and is particularly well versed in mergers and acquisitions from strategic through financial implications, and has helped dozens of companies, including The Bonadio Group, navigate through these tricky waters.
Tom is active in community life, serving as a Commissioner of the Monroe County Case Commission, Monroe County Jobs Creation Task Force and on the St. John Fisher College Alumni Activities Committee. Tom has served as adjunct faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology and as a Trustee and Chairman of the Accounting Advisory Board of St. John Fisher College. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St. John Fisher College.
Tom’s family, including his wife Heather, his daughters Renee and Danielle, and his four grandchildren, Celeste, Spencer, Lucas, and Thomas, represent the most important part of his life (also, Rocky, the family dog). Tom loves sports and plays golf as often as he can. He is a Buffalo Bills and New York Yankees fan. He has been actively involved in the Rochester community for his entire life. Tom is a board member at ViridiParente, and in 2020, he was voted in by his peers as a member of their audit committee.
