Thomas T. Flannery

Managing Director

Pittsburgh

Tom Flannery is the Managing Director of Boyden’s Pittsburgh Office.  He joined Boyden in January 2000 after thirteen years as Managing Partner of a Pittsburgh based search firm.  He currently participates in the Board, Industrial, Life Sciences and Financial Services Practices within Boyden and is regarded as a thought leader in the firm.  He is the founder of Boyden’s Interim Management practice in the United States and the initiator of the firm’s proprietary board assessment and evaluation tool, The Model Board, in the Americas.

Tom has executed senior search assignments in a broad array of sectors and currently focuses on Board level assignments for both publicly and privately held companies and organizations. He has managed assignments ranging from CEOs, CFOs, and Board Directors to acquisitions of companies for his clients and considers himself a generalist at a time when most search professionals are calling themselves specialists.   He has attained the level of trusted advisor with many of his clients and is heavily involved in succession planning and strategic hiring.  When he joined Boyden, he also brought with him a significant amount of international business.

Tom's early career included ten years with Gulf Oil Corporation in Gulf’s domestic refining and marketing group and another seven as President of a distribution company he acquired from Gulf in 1979. Given his experience in both corporate and entrepreneurial environments, he is equally comfortable working with both large and small companies.

In addition to his management responsibilities, Tom is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and serves as a Director for several of his client companies.  He has also served on the Board of the Fox Chapel Authority and sits on the development committees for several Pittsburgh-based charitable organizations.  He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.