Tom is a Nationally Recognized Healthcare Food & Nutrition Services Administrator with over 30 years of experience in three different 400 plus bed Tertiary Care Hospitals in the Philadelphia area, as well as Long Term Care experience at Inglis Foundation in Bala Cynwyd, which provides specialty care for quadriplegics and exemplifies the PCC (Person Centered Care) model. He has a history of increased patient, customer, and employee satisfaction, improved fiscal management; His trademark is dramatically increased retail sales, employee productivity and engagement. Tom currently chairs the Self-Operations Committee for the Association for Healthcare Food Service and is Treasurer for the Philadelphia South Jersey Chapter of AHF. He is committed to lifelong learning for himself, and his sites have always served as a training ground for future dietitians and food service professionals. Tom runs TCB Partners, LLC, a consulting firm, teaches Food Systems Management at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA and is a frequent speaker and webinar participant. He has presented to various Academy of Nutrition and DPG 41, NRA (the restaurant, not the gun guys), ANFP, and AHF audiences. Tom is happily married to Mary Cooley, a fellow Dining Services Director who shares his passion for fine food, wellness, lean and sustainable practices, gardening and canning gourmet sauces and salsas, and fighting the debilitating effects of age-related brain disintegration. Together, they have raised three ginger children and eat a lot of fruit and salads.