Tom Beakbane began his career as a marketing trainee with United Biscuits in London, England, followed by a move to North America to work with Pepsi-Cola as a product manager and later as a marketing manager for Alberto-Culver. 

For the last 18 years he has run a communications consultancy, Beakbane: Smart Brand Communications, based in Toronto, working for many of the world's leading companies. 

He participates in industry organizations, including TEC, the IN Network and the Strategic Leadership Forum and is a board member of several companies including an engineering business in the U. K. He is actively involved in charity work and was vice chair of a United Way chapter. 

Prior to becoming a professional marketer he was a sous-chef on the Côte d'Azur. He studied at the University of Durham where he earned a B. Sc. (Honours) in neurophysiology and biochemistry and was awarded honorary life membership of the student council. 

He now resides north of Toronto with his wife and two daughters. 

He has completed writing Consilience and the Business of Persuasion, a book about how breakthroughs in the life-sciences are reframing marketing theory.