Tom 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 14th Fastest Growing Company by the Philadelphia Business Journal. Shortly thereafter, his second company, Recovery Networks, ranked 6th 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 sold in 2009 and 2013, respectively.

After successful exits 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 tasked with managing all aspects of the World Meeting of Families Congress as well as 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 the 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 currently is a Senior Director at Dell Technologies focused on Private Cloud Converged and Hyper-Converged architectures.

Active in numerous activities, Mr. Dugan is a Rugby Coach and referee; a member of the MS Leadership Class of 2004; co-founded, organized and led two non-profit organizations in Philadelphia; and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Neumann University in Pennsylvania. Mr. Dugan holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Mathematics from Drexel University.