Tom Patterson is a business advisor in the areas of security, commerce, and governance, and the Author of the book:   Mapping Security--  Corporate Security Sourcebook for Today’s Global Economy  The book was published by Addison-Wesley and Symantec Press in December 2004.

Tom is the Executive Director for the IPv6 Business Council  www.IPv6BusinessCouncil.org), an executive organization dedicated to exploring capabilities of IPV6 in North American business.

Tom just completed a successful tour as International Partner for Deloitte & Touche in Germany, leading the Security Services practice for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and as part of the firm’s global security services leadership team.  Based in Frankfurt, Tom led the coordination and delivery of information security solutions to clients in over 30 EMEA countries. 

In Europe and around the world, Tom led the way toward reasonable application of security products and services, which paves the way for operational efficiencies, greater customer safeguards, and better corporate governance.

During his tenure in the EMEA region, Tom led the firm’s security productization efforts, established and led the firm’s relationships with IBM and Symantec, and developed and rolled out a ‘franchise’ business for smaller EMEA countries which included packaged hiring, training, methodologies, routes to market, and regional support for proposals and delivery.  He also created and led the firm’s press activities for security, which resulted in over 300 million positive media impressions for the firm.  Tom was also part of Deloitte’s global leadership team for Enterprise Risk, assisting other regions (Americas and Asia Pacific) to leverage his results.

Tom came to Deloitte in 2002 with 20 years in the information security and electronic commerce business.  He  has a wealth of real world experience in large-scale electronic commerce systems, risk management, and information security.  He has owned P&L responsibility at both large and small companies, been a key strategist at IBM,  and has a track record of success in product and service development, routes to market, marketing, and international business.  While living and working around the world, Tom has served on boards of directors (including an  audit committee), successfully closed multiple corporate transactions,  and remains a trusted advisor  in the issues behind strong corporate governance.

Prior to Deloitte, Patterson led the Global Managed Service group at KPMG Consulting  (NYSE: BE).  While there, he built and managed the award-winning global managed service practice and created a new security scheme for mobile commerce.  His team won multi-million dollar jobs in the areas of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), and Transaction (payments) processing.  Along with Cisco and the United Nations, he led the payment processing for NetAid, and led the pro bono efforts to process the hundreds of millions of dollars of donations to the United Way’s September 11^th  Fund, helping to connect donations from around the world to the victims at their time of need.

Just prior to joining KPMG, Tom was a Sr. Vice President and managed the Certificate Authority Outsource company TradeWave, supporting over 500 North American corporations, clearing over one million web-based digital certificate requests per year, and transacting more than $2 billion dollars of Internet commerce every month.   That system has subsequently been purchased by Identrus,  the leading global banking Internet organization.

Formerly the Chief Strategist for Electronic Commerce at IBM, Patterson has been a leader in driving industry toward reasonable use of the Internet.  At IBM, his CommercePOINT strategy included digital certificate products and services, electronic payments products, a leading commerce server, and several trading communities that helped both businesses and consumers transact business on the net.   Many of these products and services remain an important part of IBM’s Websphere brand today.  In addition, while at IBM, Patterson co-created and developed the Institute for Advanced Commerce, the leading business/academic partnership institute devoted exclusively to the further development of an electronic-based global economy.

As a consultant, Tom has designed and developed the world’s largest (1996) Electronic Commerce Internet site, measured in real dollars transacted. The OASIS system of secure trading of commodity futures united hundreds of competitive firms behind common e-Commerce architecture, allowing for direct Internet access to critical internal data between the participants. The annualized volume of trading activity exceeds twenty-five billion dollars ($25B) and is based on standard browsers and servers, enhanced with digital certificates, firewalls, and auctioning software.  Patterson also developed and led the successful implementation of the Fortune 50’s largest (1996)  global intranet -- at work in over 200 countries. 

Tom has been a member of the Board of Directors of US Search (NASDAQ:  FADV) and has served on the Audit Committee of this leading public information service in the United States.  He has also been a member of the Board of Directors for Globalink Corporation (AMX: GNK), where he led its migration from a product company to a leading internet services business with the development of  'Comprende,' a language translation service that is linked to web servers worldwide.  

Prior to these successes in the commercial industry, Patterson was part of an elite team representing industry views on electronic commerce to the Federal Government during the formative years of the Internet and the National Information Infrastructure. 

As a Director of Security at MCC, America’s leading technology consortium, which includes member companies 3M, General Dynamics, Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, SAIC,  Texas Instruments and over 100 more, he was a key member of the leadership team for EI/Net -- industry’s first Electronic Commerce consortial effort.  EI/Net created the world's first secure web browsers and servers (WinWeb, MacWeb) the Internet’s first search engine and directory (Galaxy), and operated the first commercial certificate authority for industry use on the Internet (EPRI).

Patterson has previously advised the White House, U.S. Congress, National Information Infrastructure Committee, Departments of Defense, Treasury, Energy and Commerce, and scores of large businesses and organizations around the world, and in the US he is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors.  He has been interviewed as an industry expert on network programs such as the NBC Today Show, CBS News, ABCNews.com, and CNBC , CNBC Europe, and CNBC Asia.  He is a frequent speaker at tradeshows, including Internet World, Internet Commerce Expo, and Comdex, and is working on his book “Safe Harbor: The Corporate Sourcebook for Global Security & Privacy”, due out in April 2004.  He has been interviewed and quoted in many technical publications as well as leading dailies and general publications such as The New York Times, Newsweek, People Magazine and USA Today.  Patterson's writings on e-Commerce have appeared in several Internet-related books, including “Building the Corporate Intranet” and “SE-COM--The Internet Commerce Book.”  He also sat on the Technology Advisory Board of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR).  Patterson has lived in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, and has worked and lectured around the world.   He currently resides in Pacific Palisades, California with his wife and son.