Tim Wheeler
Tim Wheeler has 18 years’ experience in various engineering and management positions in the high-technology industry in the USA and in Asia. In 1994 Tim left his position as Director of Marketing with Apple Computer Asia based in Hong Kong to move his family to Durango. At Apple Computer he led the development of Chinese, Thai, and Korean Mac systems, including a Chinese desktop publishing suite of products that allowed Apple to initially break into the Chinese computer market. After moving to Durango, he operated his small-business consulting firm for 10 years before purchasing the Durango Coffee Company retail store in 2004 and creating the Durango Compost Company in 2008, both of which he currently owns and operates. He also is collaborating with another local entrepreneur to develop a Resource Recovery Park in La Plata County, that envisages utilizing recyclable resources from our local waste stream to develop value added products in a themed business park setting.
Over his career Tim developed a passion for connecting his love of a wholesome outdoors/environment with the need to harness the positive parts of our capitalist economy towards an environmentally and economically sustainable future. To this end Tim has been bringing this perspective to his involvement in many local Durango area organizations and activities. He is a Leadership La Plata Graduate (1996-97), served on the board of Durango Natural Foods, the Durango Business Improvement District, Sunrise Credit Union, and has been a founding board member of the Southwest Colorado Chapter of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society, 4CORE, Local First, and participated in a number of other economic development activities over his 20+ years as a resident in La Plata county.
He has received an Advanced Management Certificate from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and an Electronics Diploma from DeVry Institute of Technology, and lives in La Plata county with his wife of 31 years, Ann and has two grown children, Luke and Alexandra.
