I'm Tim …
Memphis native. 40 year San Francisco transplant. Serial founder, VC Partner, tinkerer.
40 years of technology design, development and marketing experience from large scale data center management to programming to Big Eight consulting to interactive design and SaaS startups to venture capital.
Founder/CEO of Red Sky Interactive in San Francisco, one of the pioneering and earliest funded Internet agencies (by Omnicom, New York). Grew company from 1 to over 600, and 8 offices worldwide. Red Sky was the third most awarded interactive agency in the world in 1999.
First interactive board member of New York's One Club. 15 year member of ad-tech Advisory Board. Venture Advisor, chair of design program, and early representative to the board at U.C. Berkeley's SkyDeck accelerator. Serial entrepreneur, seed investor.
Seven other startups as founder or co-founder later, currently Partner at Bee Partners, a pre-seed VC in San Francisco, where I am enthusiastically applying my design and operational experience to exceptional early-stage ventures and their founders.
Also proudly support our DEI efforts at Bee Partners as a committee member of the SF Chapter of the National Black MBA Association and an enthusiastic supporter of "underestimated" founders.
Specialties: Technology marketing and strategy, creative team building, interactive product design and development, design thinking / rapid prototyping, shaking hands, probing questions, wild tangents, making new things from disparate parts.
I love juggling, biking, flying machines, board sports and may be the only person you know who has had his car repaired by Steve Jobs.