Tom Carlson is a CPA & CIRA from Weston, Connecticut. While his career has always been in finance, the focus of his employment for the past 20 years has been on advisory practices in business restructuring and turnaround. His most recent employment was with Duff & Phelps, LLC. Prior to this, Tom Carlson was a co-founder of a private advisory practice that catered business restructuring within the niche of renewable energy. He worked for Jefferies & Company for 10 years as the Managing Director for their Recapitalization & Restructuring group. Tom Carlson is a graduate of Colgate University, where he earned his BA, and he earned his MBA at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU.