Thomas O. Bales Jr. was an American Entrepreneur and Inventor and was the co-founder of Symbiosis Corp., Syntheon LLC, both medical device companies and EAC an aerospace company.
Early life and education Tom Bales was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and spent his childhood in Pensacola, FloridaThe Wall Street Journal - Friday March 15 2009 "Views, Palms, Pets and Robots" 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.MIT News Office - Portraits of MIT related Companies
Career 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.Journal of Biomedical Engineering - 1991 Vol. 13 Sept. pg. 391 In 1988 Tom Left Theratek to branch out on his own and start Symbiosis Corp. with Kevin Smith.New Miami July 1991 "Symbiosis - Miami's hottest manufacturer takes surgery to the cutting edge" 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.Bloomberg Business Week - Syntheon Corporate Overview
Tom holds 213 US Patents in the fields of Medical Devices, Material Science, Electronics and Propulsion.
Tom was the Chief Scientist for the Energetic Ray Global Observatory (ERGO)Project,Energetic Ray Global ObservatoryMetro Web April 27, 2013 - "From Calabria to Space via the web"
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 ()
Personal life Tom Bales was married to Constance Ryan. They have 3 sons - William Bales, Maxwell Bales and Gregory Bales
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