Thomas "Tom" Secunda (born 1954) is an American billionaire businessman, best known as one of the four co-founders of Bloomberg L.P. and its vice chairman.
[5] Beginning his career as a programmer,[6] Thomas Secunda worked as a fixed-income trader at Morgan Stanley, as well as a systems researcher at Salomon Brothers, where he worked alongside future co-founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg.
"[12][13] Since devastating 2017 hurricane impacted the U.S. Virgin Islands and other parts of the Caribbean, Secunda has been deeply involved in reconstruction efforts there.
[15] He is one of the major donors to Empire AI, a consortium started by the New York state legislature in which top public and private academic institutions from the state will have access to the hardware that is supposed to enable them to "address the growing imbalance in computing power between industry and academe and to orient the future of AI development toward the public good.
"[16] Secunda lives with his wife, Cynthia "Cindy" Cohen, who is also Jewish,[17][5] and their two daughters in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.