Tom Grams, Founder and Managing Director

Over the last twenty years, Tom has been at the forefront of new media, cross promoting emerging technologies with more traditional forms of broadcast to create new and innovative revenue streams

He has been an executive at, and senior consultant to, some of the world’s most successful media companies. 

As one of Discovery Channel's early employees, Tom helped that company grow to become the world's largest producer of non-fiction entertainment, at Discovery he also helped to launch The Learning Channel (TLC).

He worked with the pioneer of On-Demand television, Your Choice TV, or Time-Shifted TV, as it was then named.  And in the U.S. telephone companies’ first foray into cable television, Tom served as Director of Programming for Pacific Bell.

He co-founded cable network ZDTV for Ziff Davis Publishing, which was sold to Paul Allen and became TechTV.  Tom served as General Manager of TechTV International, successfully launching TechTV subsidiary channels across Asia and Canada. 

Since launching, TVGrams Digital Media, Tom has created business strategies and guided the launch and operation of numerous new ventures.  Clients have included HGTV, Discovery Communications, Universal Music Group, CNET, Edmunds.com and Undergroundfilm.com. 

Tom is also a partner with William Randolph Hearst III in San Simeon Releasing, a digital media investment company.  He sits on the Advisory Board of Broadband Media companies, including, TurnHere.com, ForaTV, and InDplay.com. 

He has an MBA in international finance from George Washington University and a BA in political science from Minnesota State University.