Investment Professionals & Operating Advisors

Tim Buckley

Operating Advisor

Tel: 212-823-0720

Email: Tim@stripesgroup.com

Background

Tim is an Operating Advisor with Stripes Group, primarily focused on evaluating and supporting Technology companies.

Tim is the former Chief Operating Officer for Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world’s premier open source and Linux provider. As COO, Tim used his insight to accelerate the momentum of open source and expand Red Hat’s worldwide business, service and support operations. Tim played an integral role in the evolution of Red Hat’s business and success selling LINUX through a Software as a Service (SAAS) business model. Prior to Red Hat, Tim was Senior Vice President of worldwide sales at Visio Corporation, from a start-up to a public company. Visio was acquired by Microsoft for $1.5B.

During his 20-plus years working with emerging technology companies, Tim has helped launch many other successful start-ups, including Aldus, known for the creation of PageMaker (acquired for $525M), and Approach, a PC database company that was sold to Lotus. Tim served on the board of SmartPath, acquired in March 2004 by DoubleClick (Nasdaq:DCLK), is currently an advisor to MySQL and is on the board of ChannelAdvisor.