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[Almijisti]

[theonetruebix]

[TheGunny]

Where do we stand with Thomas McLaughlin?

Thomas McLaughlin, Director of Sales & Marketing. Mr. McLaughlin received his BA and graduate degrees in information technology from the University of New Brunswick, and his MBA from Brisbane Graduate School of Business. During his studies at Brisbane, he specialized in International Business and Entrepreneurship. Mr. McLaughlin has almost five years of experience in land development, sales and marketing. At Jordan, he is focusing on opportunities for growth and expansion of the company in the Central Florida development and construction industry.

WorldQuest Resort is a featured project for Jordan Development.

[theonetruebix]

We don't really stand anywhere with him. We just know that he was the link that led us from EHWR to MSL, all because he used an address in the EHWR domain record he shouldn't have.

Beyond that, we know what you posted above from the Jordan site. (Well, and that he appears to have once worked for TSR, although I still can't see pictures of him as the same person.)

[TheGunny]

Ok, did a search and only came up with four postings of his name on here. Just saw your post on your blog about the signature as well. Seems he has a bit of a diverse background.

[theonetruebix]

[denmmurray]

what's odd is he's apparently attached to news.bigg.net which posted an article about Mindstorm labs here :http://news.bigg.net/newswire.php?language=all&search_text=tom+mclaughlin[/url]

[TheGunny]

I don't think its him in the TSR pics either since they are from the early '90s and his resume says he only has five years experience in marketing.

[theonetruebix]

Here's more on Tom.

[theonetruebix]

Have we seen a puppetmaster right here on these boards?

[waitress#2]

Good Job!

[Almijisti]

Looking into the whole TM thing, I personally don't think he'd be directly involved in any of this. TM was the Director of Public Relations at TSR in the mid-1990s (see, e.g., this press release); and since everything points to this guy being the same TM who is working with WordQuest Resorts, I'd think he'd have better things to do than post things on blogs--people with that kind of money pay other people to do such tedious things. He is, as they say, a "suit" and unlikely to be more than that--which is not to say that's a bad thing, of course. The one site that does discuss TM's role with TSR suggests that he was not even a gamer.

What I did find interesting in the above press release is Trigee Enterprises--a company that sounds remarkably similar to Trigen Enterprises, of course (also note Omega Helios). It seems to me that TM is making an inside joke by coming up with a very similar sounding name to Trigee; or....perhaps TM is now working with Trigee Enterprises and they are the real PMs. I doubt the latter, since Trigee only seems to have done the usual fantasy-medieval schtick. But who knows; I'm not even sure Trigee still exists--they don't appear to have a website. If it's a fictitious name, I'd need to know what state they are in to find out anything more.

[theonetruebix]

We've never had confirmation that the Tom McL is the same as the one from TSR, especially since their photographs don't really look like the same person.

It makes perfect sense for it to be the same one, from the standpoint of MSL's claim to 20+ years of experience with RPGs.

It's just never been confirmed.