Thomas O. Bales Jr.

Tom Bales was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and spent his childhood in Pensacola, Florida[1] He is the son of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas O. Bales Sr. a Marine Corp. fighter pilot. and Julia (née Fulghum). He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a major in Mechanical Engineering.[2]

Tom Bales began his engineering career with medical device Company Cordis Corporation (Later acquired by Johnson and Johnson) He left Cordis to help form Cordis Spinoff Theratek International.[3] In 1988 Tom Left Theratek to branch out on his own and start Symbiosis Corp. with Kevin Smith.[4] After selling Symbiosis to American Home Products Corp. (Now Wyeth Division of Pfizer) for $175,000,000 he remained on staff for 4 years as Chief Technology Officer before leaving to start Environmental Aeroscience Corp (EAC) and Syntheon LLC.[5]

Tom holds 213 US Patents in the fields of Medical Devices, Material Science, Electronics and Propulsion.[6]

Tom was the Chief Scientist for the Energetic Ray Global Observatory (ERGO)Project,[7][8]

Tom was the President of the Symbiosis Foundation

Tom was board chair for Ukulele Kids Club https://theukc.org/our-story/

Tom is the author of The Timescope, an historical science fiction short story about Leonardo da Vinci's travels in America during World War II (ISBN 979-8-3507-1120-2)

Tom Bales was married to Constance Ryan. They have 3 sons - William Bales, Maxwell Bales and Gregory Bales [1]