Jim Timmins, ASA, Managing Director
Jim Timmins heads the valuation practice at Teknos. He has worked in Silicon Valley for nearly 30 years, much of that time in venture capital and investment banking. In addition to completing more than 500 valuations and fairness opinions, Jim has participated in numerous merger transactions, private placements, and public offerings during his career.
Prior to forming Teknos, Jim was a Managing Director at Pagemill Partners, where he created and managed the valuation practice. Before that he was the Managing Director of the Silicon Valley office of NIF Ventures (the venture capital arm of Daiwa Securities SMBC of Japan), and a General Partner of Glenwood Ventures and Glenwood Capital. Earlier in his career, he held positions in investment banking at Hambrecht & Quist and Salomon Brothers.
Jim has served on more than 15 boards of directors of private and public companies; he currently serves on the board of directors and audit committee of Zhone Technology. He also has been named as an expert witness on a variety of cases involving emerging growth companies and venture capital investment.
Jim holds a BA from Trinity College, University of Toronto, an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has been a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and the School of Law, Santa Clara University, he has taught continuing education courses for lawyers in early stage company finance and valuation through the Practicing Law Institute, and he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and associations.
Jim has completed the business valuation education program of the American Society of Appraisers and has earned the designation Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA).
Jim can be reached at 650.330.8801 or by email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)