Dr. Tom DePaoli is an educator-trainer-coach who has lectured and taught extensively. He is the CEO of Apollo Solutions which consults in the human resources, leadership, supply chain, purchasing, and Lean Six Sigma areas. He retired from the Navy as Captain (O-6) in logistics. In other civilian careers, he was an executive in the supply chain, software, consulting, and human resources.

He has corporate turnaround experience with Lean Six Sigma deployments. He has been an employee of ten companies and consulted for fifty organizations throughout his career. His consulting projects included: leadership training, emotional intelligence, information systems, ERP, re-engineering organizations, transformation, e-procurement, e-commerce, change management, global sourcing and negotiating.