A native of the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area, Thom Wallace has been involved with sustainability and environmental issues since a young age. The grandson of author, Park Ranger and outdoor enthusiast, W. Gordon Wallace, Thom has translated a family legacy into a passion for national/natural security, a career, and successful business ventures. He is the former Managing Principal and original founder of the communications firm Ecofusion. During his time at Ecofusion he also helped start emPivot.com, the leading online network for green video.
His experience includes over ten years of developing communications, media, and sustainability strategy for nationally recognized non-profit organizations and companies engaged in renewable energy, conservation, sustainability and social enterprise.
Based in the heart of Washington, DC, Ecofusion is a business communications consulting and media company dedicated to the world's leading change makers in sustainability and green business. From 2004 till the late 2009, Thom led the successful growth of the company and spear headed critical communications solutions for its clients including branding, public relations campaigns, web solutions, new media strategies, and supply chain analysis based communications strategies.
Along side his former Ecofusion business partner Chace Warmington, he co-founded emPivot.com. emPivot.com is the leading online video sharing website focused on environmental content which has been hailed by Portfolio magazine and other media outlets as a leader in the green video niche. During his time with emPivot, he helped build a global network that facilitates the aggregation and distribution of environmentally related video content with over five hundred green brands, individuals, and organizations from around the world publishing content through the emPivot platform.
Prior to launching his media enterprises, Thom served as the communications director for the rural renewable energy focused Northwest SEED (Sustainable Energy for Economic Development) based in Seattle, Washington, a communications officer and site manager for the tribal based Salmon Corps (Earth Conservation Corps), and Director of Education Programs for the D.C. based Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund. He has worked on a variety of independent documentary film projects, audio based oral history projects, and is an avid documentary photographer.
Thom is a graduate of one of the Top 25 green colleges in America, Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania where he earned a BA in American Studies with a focus on mass media. Thom played an active leadership role in sustainability and media efforts as a student. As an alumni he contributes to the institution's continual growth of its leading sustainability initiatives as a member of the President's Commission on Sustainability and founder of Alumni for a Sustainable Dickinson.
Strong local communities are important to sustainability and Thom works on a number of advisory boards and coalitions. He speaks throughout the country focusing on media's ability to shape environmental awareness, economic development, and energy independence.