ALUMNI IN FOCUS
Walker ’54
Turns $100
into $475 Million
Tom Walker ’54 and his partner turned a $100 investment into $475 million in 12 short years.
His former company, SourceCorp, provides businesses with solutions and strategies, including outsourcing. With $100, he and a friend were able to raise the $900,000 they needed to get the company going. Last year, the partners
sold the company and realized
a significant profit.
An industrial engineering graduate, Walker became interested in the business end of things while working in acquisitions at Texas Instruments. Lafayette recognized his talents back in 1998 with the George Washington Kidd Award for distinguished professional achievement.
During Walker’s freshman year, his father died, and the student took up full-time employment in addition to a full course load. During the school year he served as a headwaiter and on summer “break” he worked at a factory and as a lifeguard.
Now he helps students with scholarships.
“It’s not much,” he says. “Somebody gave me one while I was there. It’s really just a supplement to what they’re doing on their own. I’m trying to help some kids who have the limitations that I did.”
“[Lafayette is] a school with a great deal of concern for the students,” he adds. “You don’t always see that.”
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