Tom Godden

CEO

Boston, Massachusetts, United States28 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led digital transformation at Foundation Medicine.
  • Achieved significant revenue growth through cloud migration.
  • Expert in navigating compliance in regulated industries.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare and Cloud Transformation Expert with a focus on IT Strategy and Digital Innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital TransformationCloud ComputingIt StrategyTechnology ManagementApplication DevelopmentArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

AWS Cloud MigrationAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementApplication ArchitectureArtificial IntelligenceBig DataBoard Advisory ServicesBudget ManagementBusiness ContinuityBusiness Growth StrategiesBusiness Intelligence (BI)Business ProcessBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness Process OptimizationChange Management

About

Gen AI isn’t magic, the cloud won’t save you, and your transformation strategy won’t work—unless you fix how your organization operates. Let’s be honest—most gen AI projects fail or the proof of concept is celebrated as a triumph, when in fact leaders should be seeing what’s about to happen next: scale breaks everything. I help C-suite leaders move beyond buzzwords and build agile organizations which deliver business value based on their key objectives.   I’m able to do this because I’ve been on the other side of the table. As CIO of Foundation Medicine, I led a complete digital transformation and AWS migration, helping scale the company from $100M to $500M in revenue just before the Roche acquisition. The challenge? We weren’t just moving workloads—we were redefining how precision medicine operates at scale. And that meant more than just deploying cloud—it meant changing how teams worked, how decisions were made, and how data fueled innovation. At Wolters Kluwer, I had to rethink global IT strategy, leading major cloud migrations and breaking legacy inefficiencies—all while navigating highly regulated industries that thrive on saying "no" more than "yes." I had to find a way to move fast without breaking things—because in healthcare and financial services, compliance isn’t optional. Now, at AWS, I help executives get transformation right by thinking through these principles: ✅ Gen AI and the cloud are the engines—but execution is the real driver. ✅ Your biggest risk isn’t disruption—it’s your organization’s inability to change. ✅ If your compliance team always says ‘no,’ you’ve already lost. ✅ You don’t need more strategy decks—you need a roadmap that works. I spend a lot of time course-correcting assumptions. Leaders want generative AI, but they don’t know why, how, or who should be running it. For instance, multi-cloud isn’t a comprehensive strategy, and they want agility, yet implement processes that slow them down. My job? Fix that. I use many Formula 1 analogies—because, yes, your gen AI strategy is an engine, but if your org structure is a dirt track, you’re going nowhere. I’m a dad, husband, and a technologist who still codes late at night just to understand how things work. I travel the world with my family because at the end of the day, time is the most valuable thing we have. If you’re tired of hearing about transformation and want to lead it—let’s talk.

Experience

28 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Executive in Residence

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos

  • Member of a global team of former CIO’s and CTO’s that work with executives, boards of directors and technology leaders from the world's largest enterprises to help them formulate strategies to positively transform their business using AWS's cloud services.

Enterprise Strategist and CxO Advisor

Oct 2019Sep 2025 · 5 yrs 11 mos

Foundation medicine

Chief Information Officer

Oct 2015Apr 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Cambridge, MA

  • Member of the executive team reporting to the CEO that grew FMI from post-startup with $93M in annual revenue and into a successful acquisition by Roche with over $400M in annual revenue .  Helped establish the strategy to grow the company to become a mature multi-product, multi-business, global organization with test volume increasing from 40,000 in 2015 to over 200,000 in 2019, while simultaneously obtaining joint FDA and CMS approval.
  • Led Through Very Rapid Growth: Over three years, quintupled the size of the Technology organization to meet strategic business needs.  Growing from 100 employees and contractors in 2015 to well over 500 in 2019, while simultaneously maturing financial discipline, regulatory and compliance capabilities, and technology maturity.
  • Established World’s Leading Cancer Genomics Platform: Partnered with the Product Development and Operations departments to build the world's leading cancer genomics diagnostic, research, and patient outcomes platform that leverages Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence capabilities to improve outcomes and inform next generation precision medicine.
  • Migrated from 100% On-Premise to 100% Cloud: Transformed completely on-premise environment to 100% AWS Cloud based using native CI/CD/CT DevOps capabilities, creating scalable, elastic, resilient, and global platform.  FMI now has one of the world’s largest high performance computing (HPC) Cloud based genomic solutions with over 6,000 cores of compute and 12 Petabytes (PBs) of genomic data.
  • Delivered Enterprise Transformation:  Through strong cross-functional collaboration implemented programs to: enable business growth, enhance the user experience, and improve the performance and scalability of systems.  Launched new ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Office 365, Thermo Fisher LIMS, and Oracle HCM instances. Established Enterprise capabilities around service delivery, change management, and security and compliance.
Digital TransformationAWS Cloud MigrationMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceHigh Performance Computing (HPC)ServiceNow+4

Wolters kluwer

3 roles

Vice President of Global Technology Strategy and Chief Architect

Jan 2009Jul 2015 · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Expat based in corporate headquarters in Netherlands, responsible for establishing technology operating company to work with business units on development and execution of an IT strategy leveraging cloud computing, global scale, and the rapid consumerization of IT.
  • Established and governed global IT strategy and budget planning across finance, operations, technology, procurement and other services.
  • Established program management office to support a program portfolio with program planning, integrated roadmaps, change management, financial controls and stakeholder governance.
  • Responsible for leading and hosting the annual Wolters Kluwer Technology Conference for 400+ employees and partners to share best practices, drive innovation, and inspire the next generation of products and solutions at Wolters Kluwer.
Global IT StrategyCloud ComputingProgram ManagementChange ManagementIT Strategy

Chief Information Officer - Pharma Solutions

Mar 2007Jan 2009 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Successfully re-skilled, rebuilt, and re-platformed the Technology organization to position the business to capitalize on market opportunities.
  • Led over 500 development, IT, and operations staff across multiple global locations to deliver two large-scale programs to catapult the organization into a new competitive landscape.
  • Renegotiated large Information Technology outsourcing program to instill new delivery model, advance the adoption of industry standards, and accelerate the improvement of the financials.
  • Completed a multi-million dollar Business Process and Information Technology outsourcing program to optimize costs, improve execution, and provide business flexibility through variable resource model.
  • Responsible for all technology, including software development, data management, infrastructure, data centers, Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO), network, desktop, outsourcing, off shoring, and internal business systems. Corporate responsibilities included vision and execution of the Strategic Technology Plan and financial responsibility for the full technology budget.
Technology Re-platformingInformation Technology OutsourcingBusiness Process OptimizationIT StrategyTechnology Management

Chief Technology Officer - Vice President of Technology

Dec 2004Mar 2007 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Reorganized Technology and Operations organizations including consolidation of two New Zealand based teams to the United States resulting in significant savings while better equipping the team to serve the needs of the Business.
  • Responsible for development, IT, and operations staff for the Clinical Tools business across a multi state region including operating and capital budgets as well as project and departmental profit and loss.
  • Established corporate standards for product development and deployment that unified business and technology objectives. Prepared technical strategies, investigated new technologies, defined solution architectures, developed capital and operating budgets, assuring that operations met pre-defined service levels.
  • Instituted polices for the protection and management of: customer, company, and employee information on websites, desktops, and servers throughout the organization. Instituted a procedure of corporate audits and standards to ensure compliance is maintained.
Technology ReorganizationProduct DevelopmentCompliance ManagementTechnology ManagementIT Strategy

Jda software

Sr. Director of Application Architecture

Aug 1999Dec 2004 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Phoenix, Arizona Area

  • Spearheaded successful program to modernize and enable the complete suite of JDA applications.
  • Led development team that in partnership with Microsoft successfully re-wrote all of JDA's largest applications in Microsoft Visual Studio.NET.
  • Applications were designed in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) manner and communicated through Web Services to share information across platforms and technologies to provide B2B, B2C, data mining and analytical functionality.
  • Across entire suite of 20+ applications I held the responsibility for determining and establishing the strategic technical and architectural direction including the architecture, patterns, infrastructure, research & design, benchmarking, technical development and delivery of the products along the full development life cycle.
Application ArchitectureService Oriented Architecture (SOA)Web ServicesApplication DevelopmentArchitecture

Pegasus solutions

Director of Software Development

Dec 1996Aug 1999 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Phoenix, Arizona Area

  • Held full responsibility for leading Visual Basic development team in design, development, and support of client server and web based hotel property management system.
  • Full Software Development Life Cycle Management: Directed Full Software Development Lifecycle project management, function design, technical leadership, staffing, budget management, goal setting, software release and build engineering, and process and project quality analysis.
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Client Server DevelopmentVisual BasicSoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Education

Arizona State University

Bachelor's Degree

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