Tom Holmes

Tom’s a real marketing guy. We mean that in the best sense of the term. He’s in it for love. And adrenaline we suspect. Tom’s a junkie for a great client, a complex problem, a brilliant solution. (That, and fresh tracks through steeps and trees.) He first felt the rush on a.m. radio as a college intern, witnessing big ideas move from brain waves to airwaves in nanoseconds. Post-sheepskin—and a discarded semi-pro football career—Tom’s onward-and-upward path had him gunning with a top direct-marketing guru one minute, and catapulting up the account service/marketing ladder of pre-eminent Boston agency Allen & Gerritsen the next.

Seven years and 70-some new hires later, A&G’s now Director of Business Development decided the 100,000 miles his Jeep Wrangler had endured jaunting to Vermont on demand were enough. And proof of where he belonged. Luckily, his wife seconded the motion. Tom found his way to Burlington and, quickly to Kelliher Samets Volk. Just as quickly, he found himself the lead on the client teams in Financial Services, Retail, and Travel.

Why the Marketing Director title at hmc² now follows his name is simple:— he saw his line. Despite having just schussed on the scene in early 2008, Tom’s impact at hmc² has been mammoth. See, Tom is gifted with an innate ability to use his left and right brain simultaneously—and in a way that moves big ideas to reality with visionary ease. His mastery of this art is impressive; he even somehow managed to propose marriage while competing in a triathlon. Accordingly, his “reality” now includes his wife, Lorin, and two daughters, Olivia and Stella, all of whom are eagerly chasing his downhill title. Though torn between wanting to be either a meteorologist or a stunt man as a child, Tom ultimately graduated with a degree in communications from Curry College. But only a minor in football and beer.