Gerald C. Timmis III

AB '79 Econ
Senior Managing Director
TouchStone Partners
Managing Director
GC Timmis & Company

Gerald C. Timmis III, senior managing director and one of the founders of ValStone Partners, is also the managing director of GC Timmis & Company (GCT&C).

Prior to forming GCT&C, a broker-dealer member of the NASD, in 1993, Timmis spent almost six years at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York City, most recently as a vice president. He was a founding member of GS Capital, which was responsible for making direct investments on behalf of Goldman Sachs.

He has authored research papers in finance and economics, been published in a refereed academic journal, and presented at professional meetings, including meetings of the American Economic Association.

Timmis is a former director of several companies including a software developer for database management and, as a creditor’s representative, an au¬tomotive supplier specializing in designing and building large scale robotic welding systems for automotive assembly lines.

Timmis received his MS in industrial administration from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now the Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University.