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Tim Lavelle has more than 25 years of sales, marketing, and general management experience with aggressive technology-based companies including; National Semiconductor, Yamaha, and two eBusiness startups. He has a record of success in developing and growing business with strategic customers, building, training, and managing sales organizations, and creative positioning and branding of companies. As Vice President, Business Development, FastParts, Tim evaluated and selected alliance partners and synergistic merger opportunities, and was a key member of the management team that successfully raised $34.5M in financing. Previously, as co-founder & Vice President, Sales and Marketing, NetBuy Corporation, he created the company's corporate identity and built the sales and marketing infrastructure. Tim served as National Sales and Marketing Manager, Yamaha North America, where he crafted separate strategic alliances with Intel and Microsoft, and established Yamaha integrated circuits and software music synthesis as the de facto standard for audio on personal computers. He recently finished serving a two-year assignment as Executive Director of the RosettaNet industry standards consortium, where he was responsible for guiding the overall strategic direction and standards roadmap of the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain, demonstrating his ability to build consensus among senior executives of diverse global companies for the common good. Tim graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a BS in Engineering. He also earned a Master of Letters in Strategic Studies at Aberdeen University in Scotland, and an MBA from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management. | 