Mr. Tom Brandt

Mr. Tom Brandt

Junior Warden St. John's Episcopal Church

Mr. Brandt has been a member of St. John's Episcopal Church since 1957 and has actively served in all aspects of church leadership during much of his adult life.  He served on the SJPDS Board for 6 years, chaired the church finance committee in the 1980s,  co-chaired the St. John’s Church Expanding Ministries campaign in 2001, and has been actively involved in Episcopal urban ministry for west Baltimore youth, including service on the St. James (Lafayette Square) Academy Board.  He is a second year participant in the Episcopal Church’s 4-year Education for Ministry program. Tom is an alumnus of McDonogh School and served on its Board’s Finance Committee while his children were students there. In his professional life, since 1997 he has served as Chief Financial Officer of TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSYS), an Annapolis-based wireless technology company, and is a member of its Board of Directors. He has served as CFO or controller of several other corporations, and worked for 12 years with Price Waterhouse.  He serves on the boards of Antenna Research Associates, a private communications technology manufacturing company, and TechAmerica, the largest US IT trade association, where he is treasurer.  He is a CPA with an AB from Duke University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Brandt and his wife Nancy, also a Duke graduate who runs her own business, Pleasant Living Interiors, have two adult children who are SJPDS alumni.