Thomas Kriese is executive producer at Omidyar Network, focusing his talents on social capital and networks. Thomas previously managed omidyar.net, Omidyar Network's online community, through its three year lifespan from July 2004 to September 2007.

Prior to Omidyar Network, Thomas worked for America Online and AOL Time Warner. At AOL, he created content programming models for short-duration network programming and then went on to launch AOL Hometown, the home pages community where members publish their own web page content. Thomas later joined the AOL Time Warner Foundation, where he worked with nonprofits like MENTOR and PowerUP to provide easy and innovative access to their content for online audiences.

Thomas received a bachelor's degree in linguistics from the University of California at San Diego, achieving fluency in Spanish and French.

Thomas lives in Redwood City, California with his wife, two daughters, a dog and two urban chickens.