Tom Dickson

Mr. Tom Dickson is a Director at The More Good Foundation.
In addition to that, Mr. Dickson is the founder and CEO of Blendtec and famous face of the “Will it Blend” commercials, which have gone viral on YouTube.
He’s been a guest on Jay Leno and The Today Show, as well as “I Want That,” and Modern Marvels on The History Channel.
He grew up putting big engines in little things.
Blendtec, founded as a division of K-TEC in 1975, leads the way in building high-end commercial blenders.
The blenders, which have found their way into food and coffee joints all over the nation–places like Starbucks, Baskin-Robbins, Subway, and Red Lobster–have cut blending time in half.
Dickson is from San Francisco.
He found his first job at Alza, one of the inventors of the birth control pill.
Against the amoral concepts that drove the company, and desiring to promote wellness, he quit and involved himself with wheat storage innovations and then with Magic Mills in California.
He finally moved to Utah to found Blendtec.
Mr.Dickson graduated from BYU with a degree in Manufacturing Engineering in 1971.