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Tom Patterson

Principal – Microsoft Business Applications Practice Leader

Executive Summary

Tom has more than 30 years of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management(CRM), Public Accounting and Business Transformation experience and has been involved in 1000s of implementations from small, single country, deployments to global tier 1 deployments spanning more than 55 countries. He is a CPA with extensive experience in business operations, executive leadership, accounting, sales, marketing and product development. Tom has experience in industries such as retail, wholesale distribution, manufacturing, life sciences, software, hi-tech and not for profit as well as a deep knowledge of several ERP and CRM solutions including Microsoft, Oracle, NetSuite, Sage, Infor, Epicor, Salesforce, Siebel and SAP among others.      

Prior to joining BDO, Tom built several successful Microsoft practices beginning in 1996 all of which we were considered to be Microsoft Inner Circle Partners (Top 1% of Microsoft partners globally). Tom’s Flintech and Dynamics Beyond businesses were acquired BDO in 2023 and Tom now leads our Microsoft Business Applications Practice.

  • B.A., Business Administration, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL