Thomas Brown

Thomas Brown
Director

"I was drawn to The Candlelight Ranch Foundation because, as a start-up, It allows me to make a perceived difference. I’m all about helping people manage their challenges and it excites me to see people and small organizations grow. Special needs kids often don’t have the resources or skill sets needed to feel whole. The Candlelight Ranch Foundation is an organization that steps up to help them."

Thomas is a Financial Advisor in the Wealth Management division at UBS Financial Services. Based in Texas, he joined UBS after six years of managing his Event Management and Consulting Partnership in Austin. He is a graduate of Leadership Austin, past President of the Caritas Board, and is currently on the board of Lifeworks. Career-wise, he has held positions in Finance, Business Development, Human Resources, Diversity Recruitment, and MIS. In 1988, as a Consortium Fellow in Management, he pursued an MBA and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Well traveled in Latin America and the Caribbean, he has exported art and textiles from the both Chile and Peru.

Originally from Maryland, he received a BA in business from Loyola and speaks both Spanish and English. From Baltimore, he relocated to Vermont to pursue international sector interests at The Experiment in International Living. There he met his wife, Ana Maria, who was an exchange student from Chile and a regional manager for Air France.