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Dr. Tim King works as an independent consultant based in the UK concentrating on performing technical due diligence in software, storage and telecommunication fields.

Tim provides advice to venture capital firms who are considering making an investment; to companies seeking funding and to companies considering an acquisition.

He provides expert opinion on the ownership of intellectual property rights (IPR) to software companies, and offers help on filing suitable patents as well as advising on defending patent infringement cases. This is all handled through his company TJJ Ltd.

He also helps with all aspects of strategic business advice to companies large and small.

Experience

Tim has more than 25 years experience in computing, starting with a Ph.D. at Cambridge University where he wrote one of world's first relational databases. He then moved on to early games computers - he wrote the operating system AmigaDOS for the Amiga. Later he became involved in parallel operating systems and novel architecture processors (remember the Transputer?) and more recently he has covered

Technical due diligence for venture capitalists
Cash-raising options for young companies
Patent infringement and IPR strategy
Technical review for large government projects
Strategy and advice for start-ups and large organisations
Evaluation of large and often over-running software projects
Web site design and implementation with personalisation and feedback
Mobile phones and embedded browsers

He founded system software company Perihelion in 1986, then moved on to start pioneering ISP UK Online in 1994 which he sold to EasyNet in 1996.

With a computing career starting in 1975 there's not a lot of areas that Tim hasn't seen: hardware from an IBM 370 through a set-top box to a Symbian phone; languages from BCPL to Java; operating systems from MVS to embedded systems.

Full details in a detailed CV if you're really interested.

Technical Due Diligence

Recent technical due diligence customers include:





	HSBC Private Equity
	Kennet Venture Partners

Tim has worked extensively with Computer Sciences Corporation, providing e-business strategic advice to large corporates. He has also provided technical advice to internet pioneers such as lastminute.com and strategic advice to companies such as youmeus, Clearswift and COE Ltd. He also wrote the expert's letter for the admission of Endace to the Alternative Investement Market (AIM).

Contact Information

Tim is based in a lovely rural environment near to the small village of Shirenewton in Wales, connected to the net via a fast connection, but still manages to be only 90 minutes from London Heathrow. He spends one or two days a week in London.

Contact him via timtim-king.com, or call +44 (0)1291 642040 (fax 642041) or mobile 07831 494940.

Last updated 15 december 2006