Mr. Thomas serves as Managing Director of Harbor Bankshares Capital Corporation and has over 29 years of investment management experience.

Prior to joining Harbor Bankshares Mr. Thomas was a founding Managing Director of SCI Ventures, a family office investing primarily in media, communications and technology companies and a General Partner of Syncom Venture Management, a manger of institutional venture capital funds.

As a venture capital investor at SCI Ventures and Syncom Venture Management Mr. Thomas was a senior member of the management teams of these pioneering venture capital institutions that primarily focused on investing in minority entrepreneurs and companies who’s products and services super-serve underserved communities. Collectively, the firms managed more than $500 million for its investors. As a senior executive and part owner at both firms, Mr. Thomas sat on the investment committee that approved all investments and played an active role in the day to day management of the organizations.

Prior to Syncom, Mr. Thomas started his career in investment management with Southern California Edison’s Pension Fund where he managed the $500 million international equity allocation and the $150 million alternative investments portfolio.

Mr. Thomas received his B.B.A in Accounting from Loma Linda University and his M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from Pennsylvania State University