Thomas W. Ostrander

Corporate and Philanthropic Board Member

After a nearly 40-year career on Wall Street, and a 2015 move to Nashville, TN, Tom is pursuing a diverse group of professional activities. He is on the Board of Directors and chairman of the Audit Committee of Eneti (NYSE-NETI), a European green ship construction company whose products will place ocean offshore power-generation windmills. Tom has also invested in and advised Tennessee-based startups, including an online healthcare marketplace and a craft brewery and taproom. After a 1976 Harvard MBA, Tom's Wall Street investment banking career started at Kidder Peabody & Co., and in 1989 moved to Citigroup and its predecessors, including Salomon Brothers. From 1985-1997, Tom also sat on an Advisory Board at the FASB (ruling body of accountancy), and in 1975, as a CPA at Ernst & Whinny, the Advisory Board of the Paton Accounting Center. 

Outside of work, Tom was on the National Down Society Board, 12-year board president of Ballet Hispanico, and now, board and management team member at United States Heartland China Association. In addition to the DAC, Tom has met with other U-M schools and units–such as the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, School of Education, and Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies–in varying capacities, including networking, introductions, shared activities, and collaborations. Tom served as co-chair of the New York City/Tri-State Major Gift Committee in U-M’s Michigan Difference Campaign.

Tom's oldest son John is a 2009 LSA grad, and Tom's maternal grandparents met on the U-M campus in 1899. For a period of five months in 1983, his grandmother was U-M’s oldest living alum.