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Jim Carlisle

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Jim H. Carlisle
Born 1940s.
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I am currently living in a small town near Ft Worth, TX, with Caroline, my wife of 33 happy years, and my Dalmatian. I have two daughters, Jennifer and Stephanie, who live in Boston and Philadelphia. I love to spend time in our vacation home on Lake Champlain in the Adirondacks.

I am a serial entrepreneur, with a technical and management consulting background, with special expertise in marketing, innovation, and business transformation employing the most advanced technology.

I manage several properties and investments for my family office. My consulting company, Timmaron Capital Advisors, works with CEOs and boards on projects involving innovation, acquisitions, and transformation.

In my spare time, I play golf, bike, read, and race sailboats.

My wife recently retired as SVP and Global Chief Technology Officer of PepsiCo, a $66 Billion consumer goods company. She is currently serving on boards of directors and mentoring women in transition. She is CEO of Innovation Through Technology.

My early childhood was in a small rural town, Princeton, Missouri. When I was eight, my entire family moved to Clearwater, FL. I enjoyed a busy childhood there in the '50s and '60s: water skiing, camping, playing baseball, basketball, football, finally focusing on the swimming team and becoming an Eagle Scout. I worked part-time for my father and grandfather, on customer relations washing cars in their Lincoln-Mercury dealership, as well as mowing yards for my neighbors and family and selling TV Guide and other products door-to-door.

I graduated from Princeton University, with honors in Engineering, then attended Yale on a scholarship, earning a Masters and PhD in what is now the School of Management, then called Administrative Science. My studies focused in organizational change, self-actualization, management science, artificial intelligence, human-computer interface design. From 1969-1974 I worked on a DOD-funded thesis research project exploring how to make computers usable by professionals other than computer scientists.

I was at the first demonstration of the ARPAnet in Washington in the fall of 1969 and I have had a personal email address since that year. I wrote the first user interface for Lexis, in 1969, to enable lawyers (rather than just librarians and programmers) to do their own legal research. Lexis was my first job out of college. My dissertation focused on "designing decision support system user languages". I designed and tested the first natural-language interface for a Star Trek game, running on a multi-million dollar time-shared IBM mainframe. The next year, I hosted Gene Roddenberry for dinner and a lecture at USC.

After grad school, I went west to join a RAND computer science department spinoff group at the USC/Information Sciences Institute, where about 50 of us worked on DARPA-funded internet research. I co-founded a PhD program on Human Computer Interaction at USC, where I also taught for three years.

In the summer of 1977, I joined the Wharton School, met Caroline, my future wife, founded my second technology company. I resigned from the Wharton School to move to the NYC area, following my wife, who had taken a job at Hoffman-La Roche. My first company, based in Marina del Rey, implemented custom, high-tech board room automation systems and Executive Information Systems from 1975-1978. When we were acquired, I decided to start a new firm, Office of the Future, Inc., to bring ArpaNet technology in Fortune 100 companies (a decade before any other firm had similar products.)

I had learned to sell boardroom automation systems to the CEO and CFO - so I approached CEO's offering more wide-spread automation, creating custom user interfaces for top management. I found that decision support systems, communication systems (today's emails, blogs, telepresence, Skyping, and domain sites) were novel and could be used to create competitive advantage for my clients. We offered "business transformation through technology". I managed engagements for Avon, Apple, CSX, Xerox, Chase, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, IBM, DEC, the Pentagon, Ford, FIAT, Chrysler, Hearst, Sprint, J&J, Lever, Seimens, Budweiser, Gillette, and Oracle. I had a lot of fun and employed and worked with some of the smartest people in the country.

After 15 years of strategic technology consulting and custom software implementation, I realized that I had some of the best developers in the country and some pretty good ideas, so I decided to build a software product myself and founded NetCube Corporation. A few years later, with some successful implementations for Ford, Hearst, Sprint and others under our belt, I merged NetCube into a new internet startup, called Think New Ideas, Inc. We went public a few months later, in 1996, and grew the interactive marketing firm to over $50 million in less than three years.

In a brilliant flash of market timing and good luck, we sold that company in the fall of 1999, a few months before the dot com bust. After 30 years of starting and growing companies, I went into venture capital, to help others start and grow their own companies. After a string of "mostly lucky" investments, the dot com crash soured that market and I returned to CEO advisory work, primarily with mid-cap companies under $500M in sales.

My newest company, Timmaron Capital Advisors, works with CEOs to enhance the value of the company through positioning and innovation as well as through careful acquisition. I am also managing a family office, with equity and alternative investments, including properties in TX, NY, VT, GA, NJ and FL. I've had the great fortune to have always enjoyed my work and the companies I was working in and for. I am grateful to have contributed to the growth of my friends, family, clients, and investors.

I am newly interested in traveling to Norway and to Scotland and Ireland to discover and meet with my relatives. But most of all, I am supportive of my wife's new career and the lives of my two daughters, my two brothers, and my father, who is now 90.


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Hi!

Just checking in with a few quick tips:

Free Space pages are wiki pages for supplementing your family history. They can be used to profile anything of significance such as a special pet, a meaningful event, a school you attended, a family heirloom .... They're "anything pages".

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posted by Shayne Davidson
Hi James,

The best place to post about any brickwalls or for other information is in the G2G forum. You will receive a lot of help that way.

Good luck Michele

posted by Michele Bergin
Hi

You are now a member of the WikiTree Community. Please note we are trying to build one Collaborative Tree which means one profile per person. It is important to ensure no duplicates are entered as you add any Profiles to WikiTree.

If you need any help getting started check out the Help section,or head over to the G2G forum, you might want to check out the introductory WikiTree video that a member created.

Our Mentor Team are a friendly bunch of volunteers who will be glad to help you with specific problems if you have any.

Good luck growing your branches, and thanks for offering to help with our shared tree :)

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posted by Michele Bergin
While I am relatively new to Geneology, my father wrote a 100 page detailed family history of the Hollen and Carlisle branches of my ancestry. The Hollens from Norway and the Carlisles going back to Elmira, NY, and then to Iowa, Missouri and California. I need to explore the brothers who moved to California during the gold rush. I was born in Missouri, and have lived in Florida, CA, NJ, and now in Texas. I really need help in finding the father of William Carlisle who lived in NY and fathered a large family. I still do not know where my branch of the Carlisle family came from in the UK. I would be glad to share the Hollen family book with anyone.
posted by Jim Carlisle
I noticed you uploaded a GEDCOM. Here's a link to a great step-by-step of the process including screenshots that you might find helpful.

The help pages give lots of information about the process, best to start with 'Before you import a GEDCOM'. ~Michele~

posted by Michele Bergin
Welcome as a guest to WikiTree! We're growing a FREE worldwide family tree, striving for ONE collaborative profile for every person.

A couple suggestions to get you started:

1. Our Honor Code is a very important part of why our community is such a friendly place to grow your family tree so please take some time to read it.

2. Feel free to ask a question at our G2G forum.

3. Our help pages, top right, have all sorts of useful information.

If you would like to contribute, click the volunteer button and leave a comment here on your profile to let our greeters know. You should include a little bit about how you plan to contribute to the tree.

Good luck growing your branches ~Michele~

posted by Michele Bergin

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