Tom Hedrick

Tom Hedrick is the Managing Director and founder of Dillon Joyce Ltd, where he has spent the past 23 years investing in private companies across the full corporate lifecycle—from seed-stage ventures to late-stage leveraged buyouts. Prior to founding Dillon Joyce, Tom was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he served as Managing Partner of the Dallas office and co-led both the High Tech and Private Equity practices. He began his career as a petroleum engineer at Exxon.

Over the past eight years, Tom has devoted his time and energy to advocacy and philanthropy focused on expanding investment in early childhood development for low-income children. He is now shifting his focus to climate-related initiatives, with recent investments in carbon dioxide reduction through software innovation and forestation projects.

Tom holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a classmate of Bob Massie. He and his wife, Madeleine, reside in Austin, Texas. They have three grown children and three grandchildren.