S. Thomas Emerson, Ph.D., also known as Tom, is an American serial entrepreneur, angel investor and educator.
[1] Emerson is Distinguished Career Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University's campus in Doha, Qatar since 2005.
Prior to Carnegie Mellon, Emerson served as the President and CEO at Arizona Technology Incubator from January 1999 to May 2000.
He also received a Master of Arts in 1966 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Physics in 1968 from Rice University.
[4] In 1969, he co-founded and served as CTO of Periphonics Corporation, Bohemia, NY, a manufacturer of voice response systems.
"[12] After leaving Syntellect, Inc. in 1992, Emerson founded Xantel Corporation in Phoenix, AZ, a company that develops hardware and software for desktop telephone management.
He was also David T. and Lindsay J. Morgenthaler Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business between 2003 and 2009.
[18] In 2005, Emerson took a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon University’s new campus in Doha, Qatar.