Timm Johnson

Timm Johnson is the Director of the Mason Small Business Development Center and provides business counseling and mentoring for Virginia entrepreneurs and small business owners. Since 2009, Timm has counseled over 1200 clients providing advice on launching, financing, marketing and selling their business. Timm is a practiced entrepreneur with over thirty years of finance and operations experience for technology and services growth companies in the commercial and government sectors.

Timm is a founding director of Mason Venture Mentors, a provider of business advisory services to start-up technology companies. Through Venture Mentors, he has provided leadership roles in several companies including:

• Nexus Technology Services LLC, an unmanned systems consulting practice
• Visionary Consulting Partners, a health care focused government contractor
• Next Breath a division of the Aptar Group, Inc., a pharmaceutical testing laboratory.
• Textore Inc., a data mining software company

As an experienced CFO, Timm led several companies – from business formation and strategy, venture capital acquisition, business operations management and exit. In addition, Timm is proficient in Lean Start-up, Lean Thinking and GrowthWheel business methodologies.