Tom Hirschfeld
Investor
Tom Hirschfeld is an investor in public and private companies. Also a New York Times bestselling author, he has written nonfiction books with over 1.5 million copies in print.
From 2005 to 2016, Tom was Chief Operating Officer of Halcyon Asset Management, a New York investment firm. He was previously Managing Director at J. & W. Seligman, where he managed a $1 billion venture capital portfolio and served as Chief Operating Officer for Investments. His earlier positions include Partner at Patricof & Co. Ventures, Assistant to the Mayor of New York City, and Vice President in Corporate Finance at Salomon Brothers.
Tom serves as a trustee of International House and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute and as a member of the Harvard College Fund Executive Committee. He graduated magna cum laude in Classics from Harvard College and received a graduate degree in Economics and Politics from Balliol College, Oxford University, on a Marshall Scholarship.
