About Us

Tom McMahon, JD/MBA
President, Growth Services LLC
tom@growthservicesllc.com
502.561.1240 x101

Tom is CEO and board member-elect of Intrepid Bioinformatics Solutions. Intrepid's SaaS platform offers breakthrough data management solutions to an initial target market of 400,000 genetic researchers.

Tom McMahon holds three degrees from the University of Louisville: J.D., M.B.A. and B.S., where he focused on business law, new business development and strategy & planning. Tom is licensed to practice law in Kentucky.

Tom most recently served as president and founder of Growth Services, where he served as fund manager for Commonwealth Seed Capital, LLC (CSC), a $21 million seed stage venture capital fund focused on life science and information technology companies in Kentucky. CSC is a program of the Department of Commercialization and Innovation at the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development.

Tom is also co-owner of IGE Media, a Louisville, Kentucky-based media and communications company. IGE Media owns two publications: Medical News, a community of 11,000 businesspeople and professionals focused on the business of healthcare in Kentucky, and Medical News for You, which helps 10,000 healthcare consumers in the Louisville metro area navigate the healthcare maze.

At IGE Media, Tom oversaw the negotiation and purchase of Medical News and led the team that successfully grew the business by securing the customer base, adding an association management division, re-launching Medical News in September 2009 and launching a new publication, Medical News for You, in March 2010.

IGE Media also manages three associations: Kentucky BioAlliance, a trade association that connects, promotes and develops Kentucky's life science industry, Louisville Angel Investor Network, a network of investors focused on private equity investment opportunities and ACG Kentucky, a chapter of the premier global association for professionals involved in corporate growth, corporate development and mergers & acquisitions.

Prior to Growth Services and IGE Media, Tom led the Health Enterprises Network as its first executive director. He carried out their mission to champion and foster the growth of the Louisville region's health-related economy, its fastest growing sector. Tom worked with the board and the business community to grow the organization's revenue nearly four-fold to over $550,000 annually.

Tom came to the Health Enterprises Network with experience in an entrepreneurial economic development organization, sales and marketing for a health care services start-up and defense litigation for a mid-size law firm.

Tom also served his community for 14 years as a volunteer firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician, stepping down from the rank of Captain in 2002. Since 1988, other than responding to emergencies, Tom held responsibility for areas including training, recruiting, retention, emergency medical services and emergency management at North Oldham Fire Department in Goshen, Kentucky. He also served as a Trustee.

Tom and his wife, a former middle school special education teacher, live in the Highlands area of Louisville with their three daughters.