Tom is the General Counsel and Company Secretary of Diageo plc. Tom is also a former partner of Linklaters LLP, where he was Global Head of the US Practice and co-head of the Risk & Resilience Practice. Tom has been identified as a leading ethnic minority executive in the US and UK over a number of years, and in 2021 Tom was identified as a top 10 “Executive Role Model” by Empower. Tom was also the author of the UN Global Compact’s “Guide for General Counsel on Corporate Sustainability”