The Team

Thomas Farmer

Chemical engineer (Ph.D.). Former research scientist & technical lead at The Dow Chemical Company. Bought Merlin’s Pizza (2 units) in April 2024. Strengths: plastics manufacturing processing and recycling, specialty chemicals, testing and measurement, physical sciences and engineering, multi-unit restaurant/retail.

Tom Johnell

Software engineering leader. Former VP of Engineering at Angi. Strengths: software engineering, leadership, AI tooling, scaling teams and systems, mergers.