Thomas Anderson, Jr.

Thomas P. Anderson, Jr., is the Chairman & CEO of Digital Check Corp. He is the son of the company founder, Thomas P. Anderson Sr., who started Digital Check as the Microseal Corporation in 1959. Tom, Jr., was President from 1986 to 2018.

Mr. Anderson attended Washington & Jefferson College and graduated from Miami University in 1971. Upon graduation, Mr. Anderson served as a Lieutenant / Damage Control Officer in the US Navy – USNR aboard the USS Denebola – AF 56 in support of the US Navy Atlantic Fleet from 1971-1973.

After serving in the US Navy, Anderson began his career with Microseal Corporation, a global provider of microfilm supplies. He became President and CEO in 1986, and in 1989 acquired California-based Data Conversions, Inc. – a high-speed film and document equipment scanning company, which today remains the primary production facility for Digital Check.

In 1994, Mr. Anderson successfully managed the sale of the company’s microfilm assets to Bell & Howell. This sale pivoted the company strategic direction to the emerging check and document scanning markets, and led to the development of the world’s first remote check scanner. Over the next 20 years under Mr. Anderson’s direction, Digital Check acquired various entities in the digital imaging and software space, including ST Imaging, Enternet, nextScan – and, in 2016, the Smart Source brand of scanners from the private-equity holders of Burroughs, Inc.

Mr. Anderson has been married to his wife, Pam, since 1987. They have two sons, Matt and Fitz, both of whom are employed and owners in Digital Check Corp. Pam and Tom treasure the love of their 4 grandchildren, Wells, Augusta, Dylan and Drake and their daughters-in-law, Nicole and Kelly.

Mr. Anderson played college basketball; is an Eagle Scout and was inducted into the Order of the Arrow; is an author and filmmaker / documentarian; and is the founder of The GameChangers Foundation, which provides college scholarships in Chicago for graduating high school seniors.

He is a Director of the Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy, an atelier of fine art in the Naturalistic Tradition, and serves as an advisor to Dan McNerney’s Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship Mission throughout the United States and the Middle East.