Tom Wheelwright, CPA, is the creative force behind WealthAbility, the world's premier Tax-Free Wealth movement serving entrepreneurs and investors worldwide. As the founder and CEO, Tom has been responsible for innovating new tax, business, and wealth consulting and strategy services for premium clientele for the past 22 years.
Tom is a leading expert and published author on partnerships and corporation tax strategies, a well-known platform speaker, and a wealth education innovator. Donald Trump selected Tom to contribute to his Wealth Builders Program, calling Tom "the best of the best." Robert Kiyosaki, bestselling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, calls Tom "a team player that anyone who wants to be rich needs to add to his team." In Robert Kiyosaki's book, The Real Book of Real Estate, Tom authored Chapters 1 and 18. Tom also contributed to Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad's Success Stories. Who Took My Money?, Unfair Advantage and was Robert's adjuvant for Why the Rich Are Getting Richer.
Tom has written several articles for publication in major professional journals and online resources and has spoken to thousands throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia, South America, Africa, Europe, and Australia.
For more than 35 years, Tom has devised innovative tax, business, and wealth strategies for sophisticated investors and business owners in the manufacturing, real estate, and high-tech fields. His passion is teaching these innovative strategies to the thousands who come to hear him speak. He has participated as a keynote speaker and panelist in multiple roundtables and led ground-breaking tax discussions challenging the status quo in terms of tax strategies.
Tom has a wide variety of professional experience, ranging from Big 4 accounting, where he managed and led professional training for thousands of CPAs at Ernst & Young's National Tax Department in Washington, D.C., to in-house tax advisor for Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, at the time a Fortune 1000 company. Tom also served as an adjunct professor in the Masters of Tax program at Arizona State University for 14 years where he created the course for teaching multi-state tax planning techniques and taught hundreds of graduate students. He currently teaches his Tax and Asset Protection class with fellow Rich Dad Advisor, Garrett Sutton.
Tom has his Master's of Professional Accounting degree from the University of Texas at Austin and his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Utah.