Tim Barrett, Principal Consultant and President of BluePrints for Business is no stranger to success as a business owner, corporate executive, consultant and scholar.

With over 30 years of business experience, Tim’s time in corporate America includes tenure as a Vice President with CitiCapital, a division of Citigroup, where he and his 25-member team managed the business technology sector with national account responsibility for Cisco Systems, Oracle, and other technology companies.

Tim joined CitiCapital after 16 years as a successful entrepreneur. He created, built and managed a successful equipment leasing firm that catered to vendors and manufacturers. The business was acquired in 1996 and went through multiple mergers and acquisitions to bring Tim to CitiCapital. In addition, Tim acquired, expanded and later sold a national advertising agency and production company based in Central California.

As a business consultant and executive coach, Tim served some 200 companies in more than 60 industries in 15 states over 10 years. Tim specialized in three-fold, start-ups, emerging growth and turnaround and workouts.

He retired from corporate America at the end of 2003 and returned to his beloved North Carolina and to consulting. Tim focuses two-thirds of his time on regional and national accounts and one-third of his time on assisting local companies on a pro bono or reduced-fee basis.