Mr. Tom Summers

biography

Tom Summers is an experienced search consultant with more than 20 years of successful top-tier consulting and business leadership. With over 14 years in executive search, Tom has extensive senior-level executive placement knowledge and has led consulting engagements assessing the human capital skills required to lead businesses. The focus of his search work has been the placement of C-level executives and board directors, for small-to-mid-cap companies across a variety of industries throughout North America. In addition to executive placement, Tom has led executive assessments, both pre- and post-acquisition, for businesses experiencing significant change events.

Prior to joining StoneWood Group in Vancouver, Tom was the founder and managing partner of Tom Summers & Associates Inc., a consulting firm providing specialized services in executive assessment, coaching and search. Concurrently, he was also the Canadian Partner for Cleantech Search. Before establishing his own firm, Tom was a Managing Director with Korn/Ferry's International Search Practice and one of four leaders of the Korn/Ferry Leadership Development Solutions practice in the Americas. He began his search career as a partner with Pratzer & Partners Inc. with offices in Toronto, Chicago and New York.

During his diverse career, which began at Procter & Gamble, Tom has also led the turnaround of a private small-cap business and spent several years as a management consultant with A.T. Kearney. Tom has served as a board director for a public and private company, and assisted not-for-profit boards with human capital assessments.

Tom holds a B.A.Sc. in Engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto.