Tom Pentefountas was vice-chair of Broadcasting of the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), having taken up the post on April 4, 2011[2] and resigning in November 2015, prior to the end of his five-year term.

[3] He served as President of the National Executive Committee of the political party Action démocratique du Québec from September 2007 to December 2008.

Pentefountas holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy from Concordia University,[2] where he received the Jean H. Picard Award for Academic Excellence and Leadership and the Thomas H Moore Prize for Academic Excellence.

From 1996 to 2011, he was with the firm Silver Sandiford and represented clients in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

[1] During that tenure he ran in the 2008 Quebec general election in Fabre where he gathered 11.93% of the votes, reaching 3rd place.