Thomas Varghese

Polymath Entrepreneur and Strategic Investor

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

  • Advisor

    2023

    Building a community for founders and startups from Central Eurasia at the heart of Silicon Valley.

  • Advisor

    2023

    Solving the world's substantial issues faster by directly connecting business, policymaking, and research.

  • Founding Board of Directors

    2023

    Haunui is a distinguished brokerage and advisory firm, specializing in agricultural and aquaculture commodities. Our offices strategically located in China, Brazil, and the United States enable us to effectively connect global suppliers with buyers, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of high-quality products. Trust is at the core of trade, and many financial solutions arise from situations where trust is insufficient. Haunui acts as a trusted intermediary, fostering trust between companies and the financial institutions involved in cross-border transactions. By offering risk advisory services and access to a global network of reliable commodity suppliers and specialized trade finance, Haunui bridges trust gaps, ensuring smoother and more secure trade interactions.

  • Stanford GSB Startup Garage Mentor @ Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

    2020

2021

  • Chair of the Board of Trustees

    2021

    Digital4Good + #ICANHELP educate and empower students to create positive online communities and become inspirational digital citizens.

  • Founding Board Advisor

    2023

    Advancing Sustainability with Smart Climate Technologies!

  • Board of Trustees

    2011

    Classical Voice is a globally recognized and treasured cultural institution as California’s Symphony, Opera, Ballet and Museums that draws on a measure of the respect, and even the love, that its followers have for the object of its mission, 'critical reviews of great music and performances' and constantly dedicating efforts to draw involved, constant and loyal followers, ocassionally turning casual drop-ins into believers, and just maybe, turning them into incipient classical arts lovers.

  • Founding Board of Advisors

    2011

    Shoppable® partners with best in class retailers to match their products back to consumers looking to purchase them on Shoppable.com or across any of our partner sites listed as “Powered by Shoppable®” The exclusive Shoppable® Universal Checkout is our patent-pending technology that allows you to purchase from multiple retailers within a single checkout experience.

  • Chair Henry M. Gunn High School Site Council

    2022

    Henry M. Gunn High School is a California Distinguished School located near Stanford University in Palo Alto. The Mission of Henry M. Gunn High School is to foster a community of creative thinkers who will acquire knowledge, skills, values and integrity; be resilient, responsible, respectful, contributing citizens; and lead rewarding lives which pursue personal excellence and lifelong learning.

  • Board Advisor

    2020

    Atlantic Strategic Insights is a public strategy consultancy dedicated to leveraging proven tactics cultivated in the most challenging markets and fostering deeper ties between policymakers and business leaders in the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Sitting at the crossroads of business, government, media and politics, Atlantic Strategic Insights works with its international partners to provide bespoke solutions to its clients.