Tom Porter

Tom Porter is the executive administrator at Panagora. Prior to joining Panagora, Tom worked for a nonprofit public charter school facility fund whose mission was to remove the obstacles that keep high quality charter schools across the country from opening or expanding and serving more students. Tom is passionate about public education and the lifelong benefits that a high-quality K-12 public education provides to the poor and marginalized in their society. Prior to public education, Tom’s passion was in the healthcare field and had the benefit of leading recruitment and retention for the first large-scale HIV vaccine trail in the United States and providing administrative support to a scientist that went on to win a Nobel Prize. Tom brings his in public education and healthcare passions to Panagora to help achieve the mission of making the world a better place. Tom is a generalist with close to 30 years’ experience in key administrative and leadership roles and brings a broad range of skills to Panagora, including finance and accounting, new business, human recourses, office management, and program design and implementation. Tom has a master’s degree in nonprofit administration from the University of San Francisco and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from San Francisco State University.