Thomas Matthew Chappell (born 1943) is an American businessman and manufacturer who co-founded Tom's of Maine in 1970, and Ramblers Way, a wool clothing company, with his wife, artist Kate Chappell.
[1] Chappell graduated from the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1961,[2] and from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, with a B.A.
Chappell earned a Masters in Theology at Harvard Divinity School in 1991.
[4] In 2010, Chappell and his wife founded Ramblers Way, a wool apparel company.
The clothing is made from American-raised Rambouillet sheep wool, silk thread, and vegetable dyes, and spinning, weaving, and knitting is done in East coast states to keep the sourcing local and sustainable.