Tom Karvonen
President and Co-founder
Business administration
Oak Park Brewing Company
United States of America
Biography
Tom has extensive experience helping companies expand in a variety of industries for companies as diverse as Ford Motor Company, Wingcast, LLC, Toll Brothers, and SunCal Companies. In these roles Tom has successfully managed sales, marketing, finance, and production while increasing profitability and efficiency of the organization with projects and budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In addition, Tom holds an MBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, one of the top- ranked business schools in the nation. Tom has successfully completed the Beer Judge Certification Program and has been brewing award winning beers for over 4 years. He has a keen attention to detail which carries through from recipe formulation through the brewing process. In addition to creating our award-winning pilot brand recipes from scratch, Tom will be handling overall strategy, finance and investor relations, business development, marketing, and sales.
Research Interest
Business administration