Tim Silman, Mpp, Mba Email & Phone Number

Designing and launching a novel approach to the venture accelerator model to support our Prize winners in scaling their technologies and displacing traditional hydrocarbon-based plastics.

The TOM FORD Plastic Innovation Prize is a two year competition, followed by an accelerator program to support prize winners, designed to identify and evaluate alternatives to thin-film plastic.

Helping build a global collaborative stakeholder economy through token-driven marketplaces and communities.

• Led partnership development for in-design XPRIZE prize competitions and other innovation initiatives, collaborating with partners to build supporting ecosystems to help drive technological innovation.
• Managed relationships with senior leaders from over a dozen organizations, including multinational corporations, foundations, multilateral institutions, nonprofits, and government agencies.
• Collaborated with XPRIZE’s business development team to develop fundraising strategies and proposals for current and prospective partners and sponsors.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Project lead for XPRIZE's Future of Food Impact Roadmap, a yearlong research project designed to assess challenges, trends, and potential breakthrough innovations in food systems.
• Managed team of researchers and the entire lifecycle of the project, as well as relationships with three funders and a diverse set of external stakeholders.
• Served as lead facilitator for two multi-day convenings of experts in Los Angeles and Munich (in partnership with the World Food Programme).
• Produced all domain-related programming at XPRIZE Visioneering 2019, curating content and recruiting almost two dozen world-leading subject matter experts to guide design thinking workshops for the next generation of.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• XPRIZE Visioneering 2018:
• Assisted team with event execution
• Operations lead for event close-out

San Francisco Bay Area

• Third Sector's work focuses on facilitating the transition to a performance-driven social sector. I served as lead consultant on numerous client engagements with government agencies, nonprofits, academic institutions.
• Managed a federally-funded, $3 million ‘Social Innovation Fund’ program, in partnership with Stanford University, providing capacity-building support to three state and local government agencies working to implement.
• Directed multi-year partnership with the Kresge Foundation focused on the use of social impact financing to improve student higher education outcomes, leading the firm’s thought leadership efforts and relationship with.
• Led consulting engagement with the County of San Diego designed to enhance pilot program using data analytics and care coordination to improve outcomes for homeless or housing unstable residents who were high-utilizers.
• Led business development activities that resulted in ~$1.5 million in new revenue for Third Sector.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Quveon is a start-up specialty chemicals company working with analytical chemists in the renewable fuels industry.
• Led account management and sales activities, generating a nearly 25% increase in corporate accounts.

• Developed product strategy and inclusive business model for PepsiCo Latin America Beverages for a suite of new nutritional products serving “Base of the Pyramid” consumers.
• Managed partnership development and client reporting, leading team of four junior consultants.

Assessed new strategic circular economy opportunities, identifying emerging markets as an untapped opportunity for mutual value creation in automotive aluminum and presenting findings to senior company executives.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Research analyst at the leading social policy research organization, providing policy and program evaluation services to government and non-profit clients. Work highlights include:
• Authored and led all qualitative data collection for the first major report on the Missouri Career Ladder, the longest running teacher incentive program in the country.
• Managed multiple projects conducted for government agencies, including a $60 million contract with DHS, managing performance, deliverables, project financials, and relationships with federal government project officers.
• Measured and evaluated the impact of government programs in areas such K-12 education, vocational training, special education, and child development, working with cross-functional internal teams and external partners.
• Analyzed education and workforce development interventions to identify evidence-based solutions and drafted more than a dozen summary reports on program impacts.
• Led engagements and data collection with diverse stakeholders and communities across the US, from prisoners to urban school principals, from Navajo reservation members to Hasidic Head Start teachers.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Helped build emerging nonprofit from one initial school implementation to five school partner sites.
• Identified potential partnership opportunities and successfully closed over $50,000 in new funding commitments.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Teaching Assistant, Advanced Program Evaluation Methods, McCourt School of Public Policy.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Coordinated study on language proficiency and cultural attitudes of nearly 3,000 study-abroad and language-program participants for Georgetown’s Office of International Programs.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Conducted research and drafted policy proposals for progressive strategy organization.

My working life isn't comprised only of the professional positions listed above. There have been a lot of learning experiences along the way, and I've listed most of them below. Many of these positions I consider critical for shaping my world view around the importance of education and economic empowerment.- Fruit picker -> My first job! Nothing teaches.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Sustainable Innovation

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma, Nespresso Sustainability MBA Challenge 2015 Case Competition, Entrepreneurship Club, Social.

Mpp, Public Policy

Activities and Societies: Georgetown University RadioConcentration: Education and Social Welfare Policy

Ba, Double Major: Economics, Sociology

Activities and Societies: Honors College (John Dewey Scholar), Integrated Social Sciences Program, Community Service Scholarship (full.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Key Club, Lacrosse