Tim Harmon

Mr. Harmon brings over 25 years of industry and management experience to Collabri, including management roles as startup executive, industry analyst, venture capital mentor, and IT management, both domestically and internationally. In particular, Tim has founded two software companies, and been an executive in two additional startups that were acquired successfully. With Austin Ventures, he provided executive mentorship to portfolio startups, in the form of market research, go-to-market strategy, value mapping, product management, business development, and executive hires. As an industry analyst with META Group (acquired by Gartner), Tim was a VP and research director in application and BI technologies; and launched META's Retail&Distribution practice. In the course of his career, Tim has developed enterprise metadata strategies and taxonomies for various vertical industries; guided the SOA integration of business intelligence and business process management technologies; and designed and built business-to-business performance management solutions. He is versed in technology solutions involving master data management, enterprise applications, business intelligence, and process management technologies, as well as IT governance. Tim has worked with and for companies in aerospace, consumer goods, energy, healthcare, insurance, and retail; and has held executive and management positions at Business Objects, Cognos, Equitable, Exterprise, McDonnell Douglas, and Sybase. Tim attended Iowa State University where he majored in computer science, mathematics and business administration.