Tom Gores (born July 31, 1964) is an American billionaire with an estimated current net worth of $2.5 billion dollars. He is the founder of Platinum Equity, a global private equity firm headquartered in Beverly Hills. He appears on the 2011 Forbes list of World's Billionaires. On June 1, 2011, Tom Gores and Platinum Equity became the owners of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Detroit Pistons.
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“The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
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—William Cowper (1731–1800)