Tim is an accomplished Chief Real Estate & Financial Officer, senior finance executive, senior business consultant and board advisor with over 30 years of experience driving business growth, enterprise risk management and corporate financial governance for leading public and private retail, hospitality, entrepreneurial family and services companies. As a consultant, Tim has worked with small to midsize companies in all life cycles, from start ups, acquisitions, divestitures, restructuring and bankruptcy. He has helped companies that have outgrown their infrastructure to create the right organization structure to grow to and generate their profit goals.

In previous CFO roles, he was very successful at re-positioning operations resulting in increasing cash flow by over 300% and leading the selection, bond financing and equity investment in a new 95,000 SF facility. Tim was the CFO and Executive Vice President of Nexcen Franchise Management, a Vice President and Corporate Controller of Avado Brands and the Director of Operations with Ligon Enterprises, a family-owned grocery concern. He has expertise in instituting accounting procedures and controls to support boards with fiduciary financial reporting, compliance and disclosure requirements. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and minor in Finance, extensive graduate level accounting course work and is a CPA and CFMA. Tim also attended Directors’ College at Stanford University Law School.

Board governance is important to Tim. He is the Former Chair of the Georgia College and State University Business School Advisory Board; Chair of the City of Madison, Georgia Audit Committee; Founding member, Treasurer and Trustee of the Morgan County Foundation for Excellence in Public Education foundation; Treasurer of YoungLife Morgan County and Finance Chair of Georgia Charter School Association Board.

Tim has been married to his wife, Margaret, for 33 years. They have three daughters, his oldest a graduate of Georgia Tech and twins who attended the University of Georgia.