Tim Hickman Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

Gumdrop Cases makes amazing rugged cases and allows individuals and organizations use their tablets, smartphones and Chromebooks in challenging environments. Check us out at GumdropCases.com

Premium headphones - Launched in 2011, the brand has sold over 100,000 units world wide.

Hard Candy Cases is part of Hard Candy Holdings. Other brands include GumDrop Cases and the Fanny Wang Headphone Co.!

Helping startups and VCs formulate product and growth strategies. Clients include: Edgeio, Zynga, Maxthon, Oodle.com, Ecast Networks, & Charles River Ventures.

San Francisco, California, US

Consulted with 3 month old Zynga to develop product strategies and product management team. Spec'd products hired complete PM team.

• Speck products, under my leadership, grew to become one of the top 3 iPod Case design and manufacturing companies.Key Successes:
• Targeted iPod market early in 2002 and lead design team to conceive a family of personalization based cases and accessories.
• Grew sales channel to include over 100 direct retailers, resulting in $18M in sales with a 30pt EBITDA margin.
• Top accounts included RadioShack, Apple, Circuit City, Frys. and Wal-Mart.
• Hired and lead of team of 30 employees covering all aspects of design, manufacturing, sales, and operations
• Nominated for Best Retail Accessory at Retail Vision 2005

• Founded Backflip.com which was a online bookmarking web site which leveraged consumers’ self declared interests to initiate a web & email based direct marketing business. Key Successes:
• Hired team of 46 software professionals (22 engineering) that built a PC Magazine Top 100 web site in less than 5 months.
• Lead 5-person executive team in defining the company road map, vision & mission architecture, and corporate policies.
• Raised two rounds of venture financing totaling $18 million from 21st Century Venture Capital, Rosewood Ventures, and Angel Investors.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Defined, shipped, and marketed TIBCO's Internet product by combining experience in building Internet software & ERP connectivity knowledge. Key Successes:
• Defined & managed TIBCO's intranet/extranet portal solutions resulting in revenue growth from zero to $5 Million
• Managed TIBCO's web connectivity products connecting TIBCO's Middleware to the Internet providing a necessary strategic element for TIBCO's success
• Lead 3 person product and 8-person development team to research, define and ship products on time. Liaised with sales resulting in faster sales and successful deployments

Dulles, Virginia, US

• Drove new technologies in a new market to help define how users interact with the Internet
• Managed 25 product development resources, including engineering, quality assurance, and documentation to ship the Navigator 4.0 web-casting component six months ahead of schedule.
• Executed outbound marketing activities, including product positioning, naming, launches and press and analyst briefings resulting in winning Byte's Comdex Best of Show and C|NET "Technology of the Year" awards.
• Represented Netscape at the W3C; managed the standardization and messaging of client platform technologies, including RDF, XML, and DRP.
• Managed strategic ISV relationships with key developers including Sun, Oracle, Adobe, Macromedia, Marimba, Progressive Networks, and Autodesk.