Thomas M. O´Brien has been a principal in Morningside Group, LLC, a consultancy, since 2024.  Prior to that, since 2018, he was principally a private investor and entrepreneur. He was Chief Executive Officer and a board member of TravelCenters of America LLC, from 2007 until 2017, and a senior executive with the RMR Group from 1996 through 2017. Mr. O´Brien serves on the board of directors of VirnetX Holding Corporation, a public company engaged principally in internet communications security, and of BAYArts, a cultural non-profit based in Ohio. Mr. O´Brien joined the Christian Relief Services Charities Board of Directors in 2008.