Thomas Gilley

Thomas Gilley serves as Managing Partner and Chief Technology Officer at Momenta Partners. He also is an Angel Investor. He also serves as Technology Strategy Advisor at Critical Mention. He also serves as Technology Strategy Advisor and CTO at Critical Media. He was most recently a technology strategist with Compass Advisers, a boutique investment bank, where he led the Communications, Media and Entertainment practice with strategic advisory roles in mergers, acquisitions and investments for large public companies and private equity firms in the areas of security systems, enterprise software, media, mobile and wireless. He was the founder of Vidavee, an on-demand web media company, which was eventually sold to Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN) in 2008. He stayed on with Vignette as CTO and led the integration of Vidavee's platform into the Vignette enterprise content and social media product line while contributing to the company's overall enterprise software strategy. Earlier in his career Gilley gained corporate product management experience at Apple Computer where he worked as an R&D manager in the Advance Technology Group, for which he successfully managed a critical intellectual property portfolio and launched high-tech products and companies for handheld computers, set-top boxes, media systems, digital cameras and social computing. Gilley transferred from R&D management to Apple portable product management to lead new product development. A lifelong entrepreneur and inventor, Gilley founded several successful companies including Meeting Technologies, a social computing company; FutureTel, the first MPEG video broadcast equipment company; and PicoStar, an incubator and technology investment company. At PicoStar, Gilley was the founding CTO for Cobalt Networks which was subsequently sold to Sun Microsystems.