Thomas A. Bloom Ph.D.
Vice President of U.S. Education Corporation and President of Apollo College

Dr. Bloom has served as President of Apollo College since December, 2003. In his role, Dr. Bloom is responsible for directing operations of nine campuses and a regional office.

Previously, Dr. Bloom co-founded and served as the Chief Operations Officer of The Well Fed Baby, Inc., a frozen food and nutraceutical manufacturing company in San Diego, California. During this period, he co-wrote The Well Fed Baby TV Show, which was picked up by Fox Health Network and authored two books; The Well Fed Baby Cookbook; (MACMILLAN 1998) and The Well Fed Baby (WILLIAM MORROW 2000).

Earlier, in his career Dr. Bloom served as President and CEO of the California Culinary Academy (CCA) in San Francisco, where he conceived and wrote 26 television shows for KQED, a public broadcasting network in San Francisco, California. He also wrote the accompanying book “Cooking at The Academy” (KQED 1993) and completed a successful IPO. Prior to the CCA, he served as Vice President of The Culinary Institute of America in New York.

During his career Dr. Bloom has served as Chairman of The Country School in San Marcos, California, a school for children with High Functioning Autism and co-founded Gateway Academy, the first school in the state of Arizona specializing in K-12 students with Asperger’s Syndrome, High Functioning Autism and PDD-NOS. Dr. Bloom is the parent of a son with Asperger's Syndrome.

Dr. Bloom has served on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Florida State University, and the University of Minnesota. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Education from the University of North Dakota, a Masters of Science Degree in Education, and Bachelor of Science Degree in Management from the University of Wisconsin.

Contact: Phone (602) 324-5510 or Email tbloom@apollocollege.edu