Thomas Pappas

Tom Pappas is an experienced investor and education advocate. After growing up in Lynn, MA, Pappas entered Tufts University, majoring in Economics and Computational (i.e. Applied) Math. He went on to become the first in his family to graduate from college and continued his education at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, earning an MBA with a concentration in Finance in 1987. Tom was a Portfolio Manager for 23 years at Wellington Management Company, where he chaired several investment strategy groups, mentored talent, and, as a Partner, was involved with the firm’s audit, diversity, and trust company committees. The Core Bond Strategy group, one of the investment teams he led, outperformed its market benchmark for 17 years in a row and Tom was fortunate to manage an aggregate $70B for over 50 clients with multiple assignments that spanned decades. 

Tom is a Chartered Financial Analyst and remains an active investor. In 2013, Pappas was named a Fellow at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI), studying social entrepreneurship and focusing on educational insights to help lower-income students succeed. He has also become an angel investor and startup mentor, very involved with the Gratitude Railroad impact investing network and locally via Hub Angels. 

Pappas has served as a board member or in a leadership role for several Boston-area organizations, including Museum of Science, Bridge Boston Charter School, Wellington Charitable Foundation, Cummings Foundation, the Boston Fed’s Working Cities Challenge, Tufts University, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Move the World Foundation, which he founded to help improve educational pathways in MA ‘gateway cities’.