Companies & ventures
Energy on two continents. Venues across the United Kingdom. Home goods, film, and marketing, built as founder, co-founder, partner, and board member across four decades.
Every role on this page is stated exactly, because the record should be checkable. For how these companies came to be, read the story.
The combined record
More than $3 billion
in sales so far across his companies.
Energy, marketing, home services, and venues: the flagship companies of the operating record.
Founder & Chairman
A Florida-based retail energy supplier serving deregulated markets across the Northeast and Midwest since March 2010, operating continuously for more than fifteen years. Under Tom’s leadership, the company donated one million meals through Feeding America during COVID-19.
Retail energy · United States
americanpowerandgas
Co-founder
The sales organization through which Tom carried his energy-sales model across the Atlantic. It works alongside Italia Gas e Luce in Italy’s deregulated market.
Energy sales · Italy
Partner & Advisor
A full-service marketing agency behind some of the biggest health and business brands online. Tom is a partner, advisor, and investor.
Marketing · United States
Partner
The UK’s leading gutter-care company, serving more than one hundred thousand roofs a year across Britain. Tom is a partner.
Home services · United Kingdom
Partner & Board Member
A collection of premier wedding and events venues across the United Kingdom, with venues in the United States as well. Tom is a partner and board member.
Hospitality & venues · United Kingdom · United States
gilchristcollection
Partner
An upscale Italian restaurant in Clearwater, Florida: fine dining, hospitality, and the same operating discipline Tom brings to every venture.
Hospitality · Clearwater, Florida
valentinoristorante
The firm
Founder · Financial planning & professional services · United States
A Clearwater, Florida firm delivering financial planning, tax, bookkeeping, compliance, and HR services, built out of the systems Tom’s own companies run on. Home of Financial Wisdom™ and the weekly financial plan.
cumminsworldwide.world ↗
The first firm, the consultancies, and the Italian supplier, each stated exactly.
Founder
The Tampa Bay telesales firm Tom founded in 1997, the company through which he pioneered outsourced energy sales in America’s newly deregulated markets. Its first customer was closed by Tom himself, by phone.
Energy telesales · United States
Co-creator
A business-to-business energy consultancy co-created by Tom for companies that didn’t fit the retail model. It works with businesses across the United States.
B2B energy consulting · United States
progressiveenergyconsultants
Co-founder
A certified-green electricity and gas supplier serving Italian homes and businesses from Lido di Camaiore, on the Tuscan coast. Co-founded in 2018; in March 2020 Tom moved to Italy to run it.
Green energy · Italy
The ventures Tom backs, as partner, investor, and board member, each stated exactly.
Investor & Board Member
A US home-textiles and lifestyle brand. Tom serves as an investor and board member.
Consumer home goods · United States
Partner
A pet supplements brand, in partnership with Cesar Millan. The partnership pairs Cesar Millan’s dog-behavior authority with Tom’s business systems and operating discipline.
Pet supplements · United States
betterdogsupplements
Principal Investor
A feature film for which Tom served as the principal investor. The portfolio’s one venture in cinema.
Film · United States