Tom Beaty
President & CEO
Tom is the founder of ISG and has over 20 years of strategic sourcing and management experience. Early in his career, Tom led the turnaround of a 120-employee construction company, converting substantial losses to profitability in under a year—primarily through cost optimization. This experience contributes heavily to his focus on delivering measurable results and high ROIs for clients.
Tom founded a business in 1994 that resulted in the creation of an early Internet portal. After selling it in 1997, he went on to work with Deloitte Consulting and later was a Director with a 500-person procurement services firm, ICG Commerce.
Tom founded and leads the non-profit Witness to War Foundation which is dedicated to preserving the oral histories of combat veterans. In that role, he has interviewed over 300 combat veterans, primarily from WWII. His efforts have been featured in Inc. magazine, on CNN, on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and in cover stories for the Boston Globe and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Tom was awarded a 2007 Top ’40 Under 40′ award from the Atlanta Business Chronicle, which recognizes 40 of the most promising Atlanta executives under the age of 40. In 2008, 2009, and 2010, Tom was named a ‘Pro to Know’ by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine. In 2009, he was selected by the Institute of Supply Management to lead a four hour televised session on Negotiations.
Tom is a member of Business Executives for National Security (www.bens.org), a non-profit, non-partisan organization of business and military leaders focused on bringing business best practices to the public sector in order to improve our nation’s security.
Tom received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later received an M.B.A. with honors from the Goizueta Business School at Emory where he was awarded the Woodruff Fellowship, Emory’s highest honor. Tom lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children.
