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. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Columbia SIRI, the Chairman of Forest Landscapes (a forestation company in Southern Africa), and an investor in several climate- and sustainability-related initiatives. He was formerly a Senior Partner at McKinsey and Company and an Operating Partner at The Stephens Group private equity. 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.