Tom Uhlman

Board Member

2021 - Current

Board Chair

2020

Founder and Managing Partner

2001

Founded venture capital firm focused on corporate technology spinouts. To date have completed 30 spinouts from the R&D labs and business units of global technology corporations including Intel, Philips, BT, IBM, Boeing, Telstra, Freescale, and Unilever among others. In total, have had $800 million under management.

Advisory Board Member

2017

The Center works and partners with public and private participants in housing markets around the world to develop sustainable housing-related products and services for the 1.6 billion people who lack adequate housing. I have assisted startup shelter related ventures in Mexico, Kenya and Columbia over the past 3 years.

Board Member and Vice Chair

2019

The Interfaith Alliance Foundation is the only national interfaith organization dedicated to protecting the integrity of both religion and democracy in the United States. The organization represents a diverse network of Americans including more than 75 different faith traditions as well as those of no faith united by a commitment to the Constitution's promise of religious freedom.

Board Member

2016 - 2023

The Community FoodBank of New Jersey is one of the largest food banks in the United States. We directly manage the distribution of over 200,000 nutritious meals a day throughout the state which annually provide over 75 million pounds of food to deserving recipients. I currently serve on the Strategy and Governance Committees of the Board.

Board Member

2014 - 2021

Homeless Solutions, Inc. has been helping the homeless and working poor in Morris County, New Jersey since 1983. In 2016, we provided emergency shelter and transitional housing to 365 people, including 81 children. The goal of our four shelter programs and our transitional housing program is to offer our guests the support they need to develop the skills to successfully return to independent living. We also develop permanent, supportive, environmentally friendly housing for very low, low, and moderate income households. In 2016, 136 individuals, including 54 children, found homes they could afford in HSI apartments.

Board Member

2013 - 2019

AetherPal is a leading software solutions provider enabling telecommunications service providers to remotely diagnose and repair customers' smartphones thus frequently avoiding costly product returns and unnecessary customer trips to retail stores.

Member National Advisory Council

2007 - 2018

DonorsChoose.org is web-based educational non-profit recognized by Fast Company as one of 50 most innovative companies in the world and the first charity so honored. To date, more than 200,000 teachers have posted over 500,000 classroom projects on the DonorsChoose.org website which have been funded. The result is that over $250 million has been raised to help 12 million public school students.

Board Chair

2007 - 2017

Founded in 1970, the Foundation stewards more than 1,000 charitable funds that are valued in excess of $400 million. Foundation leadership initiatives have focused on increasing student participation in school breakfast programs in high poverty districts, reducing gang violence in Newark, and combatting human trafficking in New Jersey.