Mind Over Machines' Loveland Named to MD Chamber Executive Committee

Tom Loveland, Founder and CEO of Mind Over Machines, has been named to the Executive Committee of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce.

Loveland brings more than 25 years of experience as both an entrepreneur and a passionate voice for technology in Maryland to his new leadership role in the state’s top business advocacy organization. The Maryland Chamber of Commerce currently has more than 750 member companies, employing some 420,000 Marylanders.

Since starting Mind Over Machines in 1989, Loveland has guided the firm to become one of the premier software and data solutions consultancies in the Mid-Atlantic. Today, Mind Over Machines has helped literally hundreds of organizations transform business, capture new revenue, and grow competitive advantage. Its clients include Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Federal Home Loan Banks, New Enterprise Associates, and Johns Hopkins University.

Loveland’s passion for technology, however, extends well beyond Mind Over Machines. In response to the passage of Maryland’s “tech tax” in 2007, he co-founded the Maryland Computer Services Association and, with other business groups, led a grassroots lobbying effort that resulted in an unprecedented repeal of the tax before it took effect.

Loveland also served as Baltimore’s “Google Czar,” leading the drive to entice the search engine giant to choose the city for an ultra-high speed broadband access project. Though another city took the prize, the BMore Fiber project galvanized broadband efforts on a state level, and in late 2010, Maryland won one of the largest federal grants for broadband, becoming the first state with all counties and major communities connected via high speed fiber.

Recognized as an Influential Marylander, Innovator of the Year, and Baltimore’s Extraordinary Technology Advocate, Loveland has served on the boards of the Tech Council of Maryland, the Greater Baltimore Technology Council, the Baltimore Efficiency and Economy Foundation, and the Greater Baltimore Committee’s President’s Advisory Council.

He is also a member of Leadership Maryland’s Class of 2004 and the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Leadership Class of 2011, and a founding member of Baltimore Angels, an angel investment group.

For more information, visit www.mindovermachines.com or www.mdchamber.org.

About Mind Over Machines

Mind Over Machines is a software and data solutions consultancy that helps market leaders achieve exceptional results through tailored information systems. Now in its 26th year, Mind Over Machines has helped hundreds of organizations transform business, capture new revenue and grow competitive advantage, and is a trusted partner to mid-market firms and category leaders alike, including Wolters Kluwer, GE Capital, IKEA, National Institutes of Health, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Dunbar, New Enterprise Associates, Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland Medical Systems. For more information, visit www.mindovermachines.com.