About

Tom Florence is the Chief Executive Officer of Tortoise Capital Advisors, LLC and is a member of the Tortoise Capital Board of Directors. Tom previously served as the CEO and an owner of 361 Capital and was responsible for the general management of the firm. He has over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry having been exposed to all facets including investment management, sales and marketing, operations, and general business management.

Tom began his career at Merrill Lynch in equity capital markets before moving on to investment management in the wealth management group. He then spent many years at Fidelity Investments where he was an officer in the Institutional Services Company. After Fidelity, Tom was a managing director at Morningstar, Inc. and on the six-person executive management committee which had responsibility for general oversight of the company. While there, he founded and was president of Morningstar Investments Services, a registered investment advisor managing mutual fund portfolios for advisors and their clients. After Morningstar, he was an owner and a managing partner of Dividend Capital Group, a real estate investment management company. In addition, he was co-founder and president of Dividend Capital Investments, a registered investment advisor managing portfolios of real estate securities.

Tom has previously been on the Board of Trustees at two mutual fund companies including the Janus Mutual Funds. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from The Pennsylvania State University and is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg Management Institute.