Mr. Herman has over 15 years of experience in startups leading technical strategy, software architecture, fundraising and mergers and acquisitions of technical assets.

Tom currently works as a Partner at KCP Capital investing and consulting with digital media clients.  Tom provides capital, business strategy support, restructuring skills, product and online marketing guidance. 

Tom also serves on the Board of Directors of local search startup GuiasLocal.com.

Recent engagements for Mr Herman include 2 years as the Vice President for Product Marketing at ooVoo Inc, a web 2.0 online video company with leading products in video chat, video conferencing, and video social networking.  At ooVoo he is responsible for product design and development strategy leading initiatives to analyze the online video marketplace and develop ooVoo’s product roadmap to fit future market trends.

Previously, Mr. Herman served as the COO and Vice President for Product Strategy at JumpTV, the world’s online television broadcaster and a KIT Capital portfolio company.  In his role at JumpTV, he was responsible for building out JumpTV’s New York City offices, setting up off-shore engineering resources, CRM systems, and launching versions 2.0 and 3.0 of JumpTV’s video broadcasting products.  He was also responsible for all of JumpTV’s online marketing initiatives including SEO, SEM, affiliate marketing and social networking strategies.

Prior to co-founding Recognition Group, Tom was the co-founder, and Chief Technology Officer of govWorks, Inc., a NY-based company that pioneered the global e-government marketplace. The govWorks transaction-processing middleware products web-enable state and local government transactions such as traffic infractions and tax payments, business and recreational permit applications, government records retrieval and voter registration. Under Mr. Herman's guidance, the firm designed, built, and launched the proprietary e-commerce payment engine to serve the $500 billion municipal payments market and a government resource portal rated "Best of the Best" by Forbes Magazine. As CTO, he also led govWorks through the due diligence process examining dozens of acquisition candidates, resulting in several consummated corporate acquisitions. He was also responsible for forging enterprise-wide technical and product development partnerships, including those with American Management Systems and Arthur Andersen.

Mr. Herman graduated from Bates College with a degree in Psychology and Computer Science and is an enthusiastic rock-climber and private pilot.