Aboard a high-tech. ferry in Spain
Picked as
"One To Watch"
by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Tim founded
Hawaii Superferry,
a company that is bringing energy-efficient inter-island
vehicle ferry service to Hawaii. A serial entrepreneur,
Tim was previously founder and President of
Grassroots.com,
a political web technology company. In 1995, he
founded
WorldPages.com,
the internet's first white & yellow pages, which went
public and was subsequently acquired Transwestern
Publishers (now BT). He has raised over $300M of venture
capital.
Previously,
Tim was a principal at the
Boston Consulting Group
(BCG) where he led CEO-level strategy consulting work on a
global basis with significant work in transportation, oil
& gas, electric utility industries along with key
industry groups like the
Electric Power Research Institute
(EPRI)
Tim was part of the BCG team that developed the
landmark
privatization framework
for Russia’s trillion dollar oil & gas industry,
and helped create options for electric utilities facing
end-of-life nuclear power plant issues.
Before earning his MBA, Tim was a senior engineer at
Beckman Instruments,
where he developed systems, software, and integrated
circuit technology for medical electronics. He developed
the first electronic speech synthesizer for use in
hospital intensive care units, and the world's
first
instrument-on-a-chip
during this time.
Tim
holds an MBA from Stanford University where he was a member
of the Public Management Program. He also holds a B.S. in
Electrical Engineering from the University of California,
Irvine where he founded the UCI Cycling Team. He serves or
has served as Board member and advisor to numerous
companies including
Dali Wireless
a company that produces cellular phone systems that cut
energy usage in half, Hawaii Superferry,
Startup Capital
Ventures,
Emptor / Accept (acquired by Amazon),
Affinity Engines,
Biopacific, WorldPages, , and
Spoxel.
A believer in social responsibility, he co-founded
TRUSTe.org
which has become the internet’s privacy standard. He
is a founding Board Member of
Reef Check Hawaii
and an active member of the
Hawaii Venture Capital
Association,
and the
Hawaii International Film
Festival.
Eau De Vie passing Diamond Head, Hawaii
A life-long sailor, Tim was born in England to parents who
instilled simple values for which he thanks them
enormously. In spare moments, he enjoys racing and cruising
his well-known sailboat Eau De Vie, spending time with his
family, and traveling. He claims the only items he could
not live without are his passport, Macintosh, boat and
bike.