Tom Ricketts

Mr. Thomas M.
Ricketts, CFA, is a President, Chief Investment officer & Portfolio Manager at Evolutionary Tree Capital Management LLC.
Over his 22-year investment career, he developed significant expertise in portfolio management, investment research, and executive management.
He oversee the research effort and identify quality investments for client portfolios.
Prior to founding Evolutionary Tree, he was a Sr. Portfolio Manager on Sands Capital’s flagship Select Growth US Large-Cap Growth strategy, a $20+ billion concentrated strategy of high-quality, sustainable growth businesses.
He was one of the longest-tenured investment professionals at Sands Capital.
Over the years, he contributed to building and leading the research team and attracting and retaining a broad client base of institutional and high-net-worth clients.
He joined Sands Capital in 1994 as the Assistant to the President.
He worked closely with founder Mr. Frank Sands, Sr. during the startup phase and early years of the firm, helping to grow the firm from less than $100 million in assets under management to approximately $40 billion in assets 22 years later.
In 1997, he became a Research Analyst, and in 2001 he added additional Portfolio Manager duties.
In 2008, he assumed the role of Sr. Portfolio Manager on the Sands US Large-Cap Growth strategy, working with Mr. Frank Sands, Jr. to oversee the $20 billion strategy, and was a co-PM/decision-maker on that strategy for eight years.
In 2011, he joined the Executive Management Team (EMT), which provides strategic leadership for the firm.
In 2013, he became a member of the 3-person Directing Research Team (DRT), which provided oversight of the 40-person investment team.
He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia (1994), his Chartered Financial Analyst designation (1997), and an Advanced Certificate for Executives from the MIT Sloan School of Management (2016-2017).