Tom Hawes

Biography

 Thomas (Tom) Hawes is BCBSVP Managing Director at Sandbox Industries and serves on the Sandbox Management Committee. Sandbox invests, builds, grows, and ultimately exits investments in companies from the healthcare, agriculture, and insurance sectors. Sandbox’s capital comes largely from corporate partners from those sectors, including 29 of the 36 BlueCross BlueShield Plans. Tom is the Board Chairman for Patientco, serves on the Board of Directors of HeartFlow, BehaveCare, ID Experts, Oncology Analytics, ContractPal, and AbleTo and is a board observer of Phreesia, Lumiata, and Wellspring Healthcare. Tom served on the Boards of Nexidia and InVivoLink before their acquisitions. Before joining Sandbox, Tom matched at Yale School of Medicine for residency and completed his first year of medical training at Greenwich Hospital. During his medical training, he worked on clinical studies at the ISK Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine and on outcomes research at the National Cancer Institute and NYMC’s Cardiothoracic Surgery Department. Tom is on the National Advisory Board of the Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation and the Management Committee of the Hawes Family Foundation. Tom holds a BA from Brigham Young University, an M.D. from New York Medical College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is also a Kauffman Fellow.

Research Interest

  Oncology Analytics