Tom hails from Tonawanda, New York, which is halfway between Niagara Falls and Buffalo. He and his wife moved to Fort Myers in 2003.

Following a formal education in advertising art and industrial design, he took a job in Niagara Falls at Moore Business Forms where they printed the first NY State Lottery tickets.

From there, Tom went into the insurance industry as an agent for Metropolitan Life Ins., moved up to Allstate, and then to the Independent Agency system spanning a 21 year period, 5 of which was an Agency owner.

Upon selling his agency, he bought two insurance restoration franchises, one in Buffalo and the other in Syracuse. When the time was right, he sold them and went into business consulting in the early 90's.

After selling small business consulting (part time) for a large international firm in Chicago for four years, he learned that almost every business had the same set of problems. Although he sold a lot of consulting hours, he just wasn't comfortable that the clients he sold were actually getting good results. It was his job to analyze a company's systems, controls and procedures, and in over four years, he had analyzed over 400 companies. Almost none were doing job costing.

Having used QuickBooks to run his Insurance Restoration companies, he knew he could have helped many of the companies that he had analyzed by using QuickBooks for a lot less than the consulting company was charging, so he decided to open his own consulting company early in 1999. He named it Business Measurement with the slogan, "In Business, you cannot Manage what you cannot Measure." This slogan is what sets Business Measurement QuickBooks Pro Advisors apart from their competition.

He became one of the first Certified QuickBooks Pro-Advisors in the country in 1999 and learned very early on that consulting services is not an easy sell. There is probably less than 2% of all business owners that feel that there could possibly be anybody that could run their business better than they can. The three excuses that he heard most often were, "we're different, the local economy is horrible, and, the only way I could get a good employee is if I could clone myself."

He quickly became an expert in using QuickBooks for management, and gained consulting clients buy earning their trust working with their QuickBooks. There are now over 50,000 certified Pro-Advisors of which over 90% are accountants. Tom is not. He is a Management Accounting expert.

Tom turned 19 just a month after marrying his wife, Sharon. They attended both of their high school junior and senior proms together, and celebrated their 42nd Anniversary in November of 2008. Thet have two sons and a daughter, and four grandchildren. Their oldest son, Tom Jr. manages an industrial seal company in the Buffalo area, their other son, Mike, went straight from high school to the Air Force and is now a Master Sergeant stationed at the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) in Rome, NY. Their daughter Tricia, is the Executive Assistant for retired Hall of Fame Buffalo Bills Quarterback, Jim Kelly.

Over the years, Tom has spent spent a great deal of his time putting back into the community working with youth groups including Boy Scouts, little league baseball, football and softball, the local Boys Club, a Buffalo street hockey program, grammar school boys and girls baseball, softball and basketball, and high school baseball. Currently, he serves on the curriculum committee for Edison College, the Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, and is the president of one of the area's oldest business networks, the Business Network of SWFL. He is also one of six members of a group called the Entrepreneur's Forum that offers free seminars for small business owners.

Tom and his wife enjoy traveling themselves, but the real thrill is sending their grandkids tickets to Florida. His goal for the business is to get it so well staffed and systematized that he can spend 8 weeks every year in the Caribbean. So far he only takes four. 

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Tom Cavalier, Certified Quickbooks Pro-Advisor Since 1999
8359 Beacon Manor Blvd   Suite 605
Ft Myers, Fl  33907

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