Tom Low joined East Meets West in 2011, after serving on the EMW Board for five years. Before coming on staff, Tom was a partner with Bridges SF, LLC, an executive search firm specializing in the placement of senior financial executives. Tom was the founding Chief Financial Officer of Restoration Hardware, where he was a member of a three-man executive team that expanded the company from four stores to 100 stores with a direct mail and e-commerce business. The business grew to over $300 million in revenue. When Tom took Restoration Hardware public in June 1998, it was one of the most successful IPOs of that year. Tom also has been CFO of Ask Jeeves and Safeway.com.

Tom graduated from the University of California, Davis with a BS degree and holds an MBA in Finance from the University of California, Irvine where he won the Arthur Andersen & Co. Entrepreneur of the Year award. Tom is a former board member and treasurer of St. Paul's Episcopal School in Oakland, and a founding board member of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Ascend.