Strategy learned in the boardroom. Proven in the ledger.

From aerospace engineering to growth engineering

Tommy's university years began in aerospace engineering before he switched to commerce — strategy, management and marketing — later adding a graduate certificate in statistics. The pattern stuck: take something complex, decompose it to first principles, and rebuild it as a system that can be measured.

His corporate career applied that pattern to some of the more heavily governed environments in Australian financial services. At Rest, one of Australia's largest industry superannuation funds, he moved from market research into strategic performance analysis — co-architecting the fund's Member Retention Strategy and building the fund's first commercial model linking advertising investment to revenue.

At Qudos Bank he worked at the sharpest end of enterprise strategy: preparing a three-year growth-by-merger corporate strategy, designing the bank's first enterprise-wide planning and prioritisation cycle, and helping stand up the joint Integration Management Office for a bank merger — ten workstreams, regulatory approvals, a member vote and Day-1 readiness on a critical path.

From 2023 onward, Tommy took the method into the founder economy. He led the transformation of a membership-based services business from $16k months at 20–30% margins to $100k cash-collected months at ~90% margins, fully online. He then co-founded a professional-education business in Singapore and led its strategy and growth: profitable in its first year, US$25k months at ~90% gross margin, zero external capital, zero paid media.

Scale Theorem packages that combination — enterprise-grade planning discipline and founder-grade growth systems — as a productised consultancy. Every service is a defined deliverable at a fixed fee. Everything gets accepted in writing. And the result is proven on your own numbers, not ours.