Thomas Varghese
Polymath Entrepreneur and Strategic Investor
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Board of Directors
2023 - Current
Haunui is a distinguished brokerage and advisory firm, specializing in agricultural and aquaculture commodities. Our offices strategically located in China, Brazil, and the United States enable us to effectively connect global suppliers with buyers, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of high-quality products. Trust is at the core of trade, and many financial solutions arise from situations where trust is insufficient. Haunui acts as a trusted intermediary, fostering trust between companies and the financial institutions involved in cross-border transactions. By offering risk advisory services and access to a global network of reliable commodity suppliers and specialized trade finance, Haunui bridges trust gaps, ensuring smoother and more secure trade interactions.
Chair of the Board of Trustees
2021
Digital4Good + #ICANHELP educate and empower students to create positive online communities and become inspirational digital citizens.
Board of Trustees
2011
Classical Voice is a globally recognized and treasured cultural institution as California’s Symphony, Opera, Ballet and Museums that draws on a measure of the respect, and even the love, that its followers have for the object of its mission, 'critical reviews of great music and performances' and constantly dedicating efforts to draw involved, constant and loyal followers, ocassionally turning casual drop-ins into believers, and just maybe, turning them into incipient classical arts lovers.
Chair Henry M. Gunn High School Site Council
2022
Henry M. Gunn High School is a California Distinguished School located near Stanford University in Palo Alto. The Mission of Henry M. Gunn High School is to foster a community of creative thinkers who will acquire knowledge, skills, values and integrity; be resilient, responsible, respectful, contributing citizens; and lead rewarding lives which pursue personal excellence and lifelong learning.
Stanford GSB Startup Garage Mentor @ Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
2020
Guest Lecturer
2022
Founding Board of Advisors
2011
Shoppable® partners with best in class retailers to match their products back to consumers looking to purchase them on Shoppable.com or across any of our partner sites listed as “Powered by Shoppable®” The exclusive Shoppable® Universal Checkout is our patent-pending technology that allows you to purchase from multiple retailers within a single checkout experience.
Shoppable specializes in ecommerce enablement technology and distributed commerce solutions for advertisers, publishers, and merchants.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from John Owen, Bodley Group, Noopur Shukla, Thomas Varghese, On Grid Ventures, MI Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Sandeep Bhanote and Canary Ventures.
Founding Board Advisor
2011
ViciNFT Corporation designs, build and manages digital assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for enterprises and creators. The company's carbon-neutral works include a mandatory charity component equal to 25% of auction proceeds, making "NFTs for the common good."
Founding Board Advisor
2023
Advancing Sustainability with Smart Climate Technologies!
Advisor
2023
Solving the world's substantial issues faster by directly connecting business, policymaking, and research.