H. Thomas Blanco is senior vice president and chief administrative officer for Tessera. Blanco joined the company in February 2006 as vice president of Human Resources and Administration, with more than 20 years of executive and human resources management experience.

Prior to joining Tessera, Blanco was vice president of Human Resources and Administration at Cloudmark, where he was responsible for human resources, technical and customer support, facilities and sales operations. Before Cloudmark, he was vice president of Human Resources and Administration at Liquid Audio. Previous to Liquid Audio, Tom was at Aspect Communications, where he was senior director of Human Resources for sales operations and international. He spent 14 years Bank of America prior to that and held various positions, including senior vice president of Business Engineering Services.

Blanco holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish/English Literature, and has completed coursework for his master’s degree, both from Queens College of City University of New York.