Tom Curzon

Tom is co-leader of Osborn Maledon’s business practice. His practice focuses primarily on serving as outside general counsel to emerging, growth-oriented companies and on entrepreneurial transactions, including venture capital and other private placements of securities, entity formation and transaction structuring, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, initial public offerings, corporate governance, licensing and distribution of software and other products, employee matters, and executive compensation. An integral component of Tom's practice is his active leadership in Arizona's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Currently, Tom is a member of the Board of Directors of Invest Southwest and is a key leader in Venture Madness, its newly restructured investment conference and related activities; he is a regular panelist in the Arizona Commerce Authority's (ACA's) Venture Ready program; he is a judge (at each level) in the ACA's AZ Innovation Challenge; and he's frequently involved in MIT Enterprise Forum and in Arizona Technology Investor Forum angel investing activities. He also is assisting his alma mater's Kansas University Innovation and Collaboration (KUIC) commercialization unit. Tom's entrepreneurial ecosystem involvement spans the last 30 years.