Tom WATSON

Armstrong Relocation
Co-Chairman

Entrepreneur

Since his youth, Tom has worked in the family business, joining full-time in 1970. At that time, Armstrong consisted of two locations, 40 employees and less than $1,500,000 in annual revenue. Since rising to the role of President, Tom has grown Armstrong Relocation & Companies to include 28 moving companies, 1,500 employees and nearly $250,000,000 in revenue.

Armstrong has been the largest household goods agent within United Van Lines each year since 1984 and is consistently recognized for service quality, again winning the President’s Quality Award in 2019 as the highest-rated of United’s 500 agents.

Tom’s leadership has spawned a variety of complementary business concepts, including Armstrong Commercial Services, the country’s largest asset-based provider of facility moving services and a logistics provider nationwide, and Relocation Management Worldwide, a provider of web-enabled move management services for corporate and governmental clients, and a leader provider in markets wherein it operates.

Tom is also active in the community, including association with The University of Memphis (Distinguished Alumni, 2005; Ambassador; Board of Visitors, Founding Member and Past Chairman; Tiger Club), Memphis Heart Gala, American Heart Association, Youth Villages, Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South, and Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association, just to name a few.