Tom Gladden

Tom Gladden co-founded the Fairway Capital Management Venture Capital Team in 2019.
Prior to this, Tom was an advisor to U.S.
based venture capital and private equity firms at Macrosight, which he founded in 2017.
At Macrosight, Tom helped firms with strategic planning, public relations, marketing, relationship management and the fundraising process.
Prior to Macrosight, Tom was an investor in venture capital and private equity funds at Adams Street Partners for 14+ years.
At Adams Street, he evaluated nearly 1,000 fund investment opportunities and made 95 investments in venture capital and private equity funds, while sourcing and working on number of secondary transactions, including one of the firm’s largest VC secondary investments.
Throughout his career at Adams Street, Tom predominantly spent his time focusing on venture capital and growth funds.
Over that time, he built strong relationships with most of the top venture capitalists in Adams Street’s portfolio and around the world.
Tom also worked on a number of important strategic projects for the firm.
He was part of project teams that: Recommended the firm begin investing in Chinese VC and growth capital firms Redesigned the primary investment team’s CRM system and began leveraging the firm’s fund and company data to gain insights about market cycles, industry sectors and fund performance Recommended the firm avoid raising a cleantech only fund-of-funds Recommended that the firm should maintain its geographic overweight to the US and its subclass overweight to venture capital after the Global Financial Crisis Helped recast the firm’s US buyout strategy towards investing in smaller funds that invested in smaller companies.
Tom has an A.B., Magna Cum Laude, from Dartmouth College and a M.S.
in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.
Tom is a Trustee at Roosevelt University of Chicago and a member of the Executive Committee of the Dartmouth Club of Chicago.