Tom Mckinery

Tom McInerney

Operating Partner

At Gridiron Capital, Tom brings business transformation experience to current portfolio companies. Tom focuses on operational effectiveness, performance improvement, and transaction advisory.

 

Tom is a C-Suite leader with nearly twenty years of business transformation experience working for a diverse range of companies facing operational and financial change. Before becoming an Operating Partner at Gridiron, Tom founded M4 Advisors, a business advisory firm providing performance improvement, and transaction advisory services to middle-market companies and their sponsors. Tom also held various executive-level roles, including CEO and President & COO, at both MedOptions and Employer Direct Healthcare. Additionally, Tom held operationally-focused roles specializing in driving transformational change across multiple industries at Centerbridge Partners, Cerberus Capital Management, and Marotta Gund Budd & Dzera.

 

Education

  • B.A. in History from Princeton University
  • M.B.A. from NYU’s Stern School of Business

Favorite Sports Team

Princeton Athletics Teams

Special Skills or Talents

Incredibly fast eater

Favorite Gridiron Memory

Ugly Sweater Party

2025
in Review

This year we celebrated two decades of partnership, growth, and value creation. Along the way, we built momentum through new platforms and add-ons, team growth, and well-earned recognition.