Tom is a member of the Board of Directors of Craton Equity Partners. Founding Valenzuela Capital Partners LLC (“VCP”) in 1989, his firm now manages over $1.3 billion for a variety of institutional clients. Prior to founding VCP in 1989, Tom was with Lazard Freres & Co., an investment bank based in New York and Paris in 1982 in its capital markets group. From 1978 to 1980, Tom was a financial analyst in the corporate finance energy department at Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.