Tim Harder

Tim Harder is an accomplished business leader and technology expert with extensive experience in start-up and turnaround management, enterprise software, cloud computing, and cyber security. He has held senior leadership positions in some of the most successful technology companies in the world and has advised executives, investors, entrepreneurs, and government leaders on national strategic programs. Harder is the General Partner at Bellvista Capital and formerly served as the Chief Operating Officer at RStor and Head of Block and File Storage Services at Amazon Web Services. He is also a former Founding Team Member at EMC's Technical Ventures Group and has held multiple senior positions in business development, corporate strategy, and global principle roles at the company. Harder's unique skill set extends to sales channel management, financial planning, analysis and due diligence, venture investment, strategic alliances, and international expansion, to name a few. With a robust corporate governance acumen, he has managed risk in complex cross-border workouts and has put his personal funds into more than a dozen seed and expansion-stage organizations to accelerate growth.