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Timothy Childs

Founder and Co-CEO
Treasure8
Napa, CA, United States

Timothy Childs is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, super-taster and award-winning innovator whose personal approach to creative disruption champions the deployment of new systems to update archaic industries.

A pioneer in the food+technology (FoodTech) space, Timothy is co-founder and CEO of Treasure8, a San Francisco-based food innovation and technology company on a mission to solve the nutritional challenges and environmental stresses of a growing global population. Timothy and his team develop, patent and deploy game-changing, delicious food ingredients, processes and products that are healthier for people and the planet.

In 2006, Timothy co-founded TCHO Chocolate in San Francisco. As CEO and chief chocolate officer, he was the creative force behind the company’s vision and strategy and including TCHO's flavor-driven approach to chocolate making and TCHOSource, an innovative project to improve farmers’ livelihoods and generate prosperity throughout the cocoa value chain. Working in partnership with USAID, TCHOSource has become a model for sustainably focused programs in South America and beyond.

Timothy was a participant in the Google Innovation Lab for Food Experiences.

Before he brought his Silicon Valley start-up mentality to the food industry, Timothy founded a company that developed machine-vision systems for NASA’s Space Shuttle program. His background in technology is deeply rooted in the pre-web internet and early real-time computer graphics fields. Timothy was directly involved in many early stage internet/computer graphics and virtual reality companies, and co-founded the non-profit, community-building organizations VeRGe (Virtual Reality Education Foundation in 1991) and the Web3D RoundUP. He continues to embrace advanced tools in all his businesses.

Timothy was a founding member of the board of Illuminate the Arts—presenting organization of The Bay Lights—and a founding member of other advisory boards, such as OSC2. He is an internationally sought-after speaker and has been featured in hundreds of print, broadcast and online stories by major media outlets, including The Economist, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wired, Time and NPR.

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