Born
and raised in Walnut Creek, Tim calls East Walnut
Creek God’s Country.
Tim
successfully owns and operates Shadowbrook Winery
in Walnut Creek, California as well as Diablo
Vineyards, a vineyard planting and management
company.
Tim
Attended Fresno State University where he was awarded “Scholar
Athlete” status on a baseball team that ranked
as high as 12th in the nation.
Tim
continues to be involved in his community volunteering
as a Varsity High school Baseball Coach and sits
on the board of directors of The
Northgate Community Pride Foundation.
Currently President and Chairman of Superior Financial
Group LLC, Walnut Creek, California and formerly
President and CEO of Innovative Bank and E.V.P. of
Superior Bankcard Service, Tim left SBS one year
after the merger with publicly traded Nova Corporation
in September of 1999.
Tim began his bankcard career in 1987 while holding
the position of Bankcard Manager for Bank of Oakland.
He has been a guest speaker and panelist for numerous
Banking conventions, and Merchant processing learning
seminars.
Tim originally opened Superior Bankcard Service in
November 1994 with the belief that first-rate service
organizations are built by providing the best customer
service in the industry. That philosophy paid off,
because in less than one year SBS became the 12th
largest non-bank acquirer in the United States.
Due
to the excellent service and dedication to customers
and employees, Tim earned numerous honors during
his years at SBS.
• First came the Arthur Andersen
Award for Best Business Practices in Customer Satisfaction,
which acknowledged his innovative approach to customer
service.
• Next, came the 1998 Ernst
and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award commending
Tim for creating an immensely successful company
that provided quality service to its customers.
• Then Tim was honored with
both the US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise
Award, which is a program that recognizes businesses
for overcoming adversity in business, ultimately achieving
success, and the U.S. Association for Small Businesses
and Entrepreneurships as the Corporate Entrepreneur
of the Year.
• In June 2002 Entrepreneur Magazine named Innovative
Merchant Solutions #6 of the Hot 100 businesses in
the United States.
In 2001 Tim founded Innovative
Bank, located in Oakland, California. Tim served
as Chairman of the Board on the board of directors
and actively participated in the management of the
bank as CEO. One strategic focus of the bank was
the offering of SBA loans. Innovative Bank quickly
became the 4th largest SBA lender in the United States.
Innovative Merchant Solutions
is a full service bankcard acquirer that was founded
in October 1999 with the same excellent business principals that made SBS a
success. The attention to detail and the emphasis on quality customer service
are the hallmarks that continue to bring Tim the success he has experienced
in the past. With many valuable lessons learned, he possesses the wisdom needed
to build an award winning organization focused on the needs of the clients.
Innovative Merchant Solutions’ motto “today’s partner for
tomorrow’s business” explains how Tim feels about his commitment
to the customers. Using his true passion for the bankcard industry, he has
once again built a successful, customer oriented organization.
A division of Innovative Merchant Solutions, Innovative
Gateway was established in the summer of 2002 to
provide a secure payment gateway to IMS’ bankcard
customers. The service has grown to over 21,000 merchants since its inception.
Innovative Gateway is a leading provider of Internet-based transaction processing
services, offering the online merchant an innovative set of fully automated solutions
for taking payments over the Internet. Innovative Gateway Solutions acts as a "Gateway" for
credit card transactions and offers real time approval of transactions with a
variety of fraud screening and verification tools.
In 2003 IMS merged with world-known financial software leader, INTUIT, Inc. Both
organizations shared the same passion for servicing customers and offering quality
products and services, making the merger a natural fit. Since that time, both
companies have worked together to emerged as a force to be reckoned with in the
bankcard industry. Offering payment systems that are integrated with well known
accounting software have revolutionized how payment processing is perceived by
customers. The service that IMS provides is now more of a business management
solution rather than just a payment processing solution. |
