Tom Corcoran began his career in 1967 at General Electric Company where he held various senior management positions. He joined GE Aerospace in 1983 and, in 1990, he was elected as corporate officer and rose to the number two position as Vice President and General Manager of GE Aerospace. He served as President & Chief Executive Officer of Gemini Air Cargo where he led a successful business restructuring. Before Gemini, Tom Corcoran was President and Chief Executive Officer of Allegheny Teledyne Incorporated and prior to that, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Lockheed Martin's Electronics Sector from 1995 to October 1999. Before the 1995 merger of Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation, he was President of the Electronics Group of Martin Marietta, a position he assumed in 1993 following the sale of GE Aerospace to Martin Marietta.

He has a B.A. in engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology and is a graduate of the GE Manufacturing Management Program. He also has an honorary Ph.D. from Stevens. Tom is a member of the Board of Directors of Gemini Air Cargo, Inc., L-3 Communications Corporation, REMEC, Inc., Labarge, Inc., United Industrial Corporation and Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc.