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Timothy Dick
Chairman
General Partner, Startup Capital
Ventures
Tim was founder of Hawaii Superferry, a company that brings energy-efficient inter-island ferry service to Hawaii. Prior to that, Tim was 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 by Transwestern Publishers (now BT). He has raised over $300M in venture capital.
Previously, Tim was a principal at the Boston Consulting Group where he led CEO-level strategy consulting work on a global basis with significant work in transportation, oil & gas, nuclear generation & electric utility industries along with key groups like the Electric Power Research Institute.
Before earning his MBA, Tim was a senior engineer at Beckman Instruments. He developed the first electronic speech synthesizer for use in hospital intensive care units, and the world's first instrument-on-a-chip.
A believer in social responsibility, Tim co-founded TRUSTe.org, which has become the Internet's privacy standard. He serves or has served as board member and advisor to numerous companies including Emptor / Accept (acquired by Amazon), Affinity Engines, Biopacific, and Spoxel.
Tim holds an MBA from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Irvine.
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