Tom de Vries was born in Aalsmeer, Netherlands in 1959.
After high school, he studied Mechanical Engineering. For his training, he worked at Merril Stevens in Miami. Tom started his career in the family-run shipyard Koninklijke De Vries Scheepsbouw in 1982 as project manager for the Interior-, paint- and stainless steelwork.
In the mid 1980s Tom and his cousin Henk became the third generation of the De Vries family to join the management team and became director and co-shareholder in 1996.
There are now six complimentary companies within the De Vries Group. As the group’s operational director, Tom is responsible for the production and quality company-wide.