Mr. Ome's career spans over 20 years as an investment banker, management consultant, venture capitalist and senior financial officer. His experience involves a full range of corporate finance, corporate development, strategic advice and operating management for technology companies from start-up's to global multinational electronic firms.

Timothy Ome began his finance career with Lehman Brothers as an investment banker.  He rose to Senior Vice President and Principal in the firm and was recognized as being the key architect and executive that built Lehman Brothers' Asia operations. He then joined Bank of America and was a key contributor for the establishment of its investment banking subsidiary BancAmerica Securities. At BancAmerica Securities he was a Managing Director, and head of its technology practice. Mr. Ome was also with Arthur Anderson’s Corporate Finance Group as co-head of its national technology practice.  He was also a senior investment banker with C.E. Unterberg, Towbin. He left investment banking and joined APPRO International as Senior Vice President Corporate Development where he restructured the company and engineered the acquisition of VA Linux systems hardware business. He transitioned to venture capital as a venture partner with Profile Venture Partners and later joined Star Capital Partners now known as Boston Biotech, as a General Partner. He was also at Genyous Biomed International an early stage oncology company as its Senior Vice President Corporate Development. He was last with Trenwith Securities as the Managing Director of the firm's Silicon Valley Office.

He received his BA in American Studies and Applied Mathematics from the University of Hawaii.  He holds a graduate degree from the Japan America Institute of Management Science, Tokyo, Japan with concentrations in Computer Science and International Management. He received his MBA with emphasis in Finance and International Business from the George Washington University Graduate School of Business and Public Policy. In his academic career he received the Times Scholarship, the Fujitsu Fellowship and the Scottish Rite Fellowship. He is currently a board member of the Software Business Cluster, the Environmental Business Cluster, and the HiveGroup.com.

He is a frequent speaker at various technology conferences such as the Microsoft Fusion Conference, the Technology Transfer Society of North America, BancAmerica Securities Semiconductor Conference, the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, The George Washington University Graduate School of Business and the National Asian American Society of Accountancy (ASCEND). Mr. Ome was recently published in the Deal.com "the Current State of Mergers and Acquisition in Technology."  He is also a member of the Strategic Planning Committee and Development Committee at the Nueva School in Hillsborough, California.  Tim holds NASD Series 7, 63 and 24 licenses.