Timothy A. Bridgewater
Managing Director, Utah Fund of Funds

Mr. Bridgewater manages a $300 million fund of funds program with investments in various venture capital and private equity funds. The Utah Fund of Funds is a quasi-government program aimed at providing access to capital for Utah companies from some of the nation’s leading venture and private equity managers. Mr. Bridgewater co-founded Interlink Capital Strategies in 1994 and serves as Chairman of the financial advisory firm with offices in Utah and Washington, D.C., where he has advised on over $500 million of private equity investments in the U.S. and Asia. He has been the co-founder of six other companies including energy, healthcare, biotech and software technology companies. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved Mr. Bridgewater as a registered investment advisor at Atlas Capital Partners. He also served on the board and as a managing director of a NASDAQ publicly traded (SBIC) mezzanine fund investing in small and medium- sized middle-market companies.

Tim Bridgewater has served on the advisory boards of the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Export-Import Bank, Telecom Asia, as well as other business, education and community boards and organizations. He served as a senior policy advisor to Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. on education and energy policy. In 2010, he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Utah and has served in several national and local Republican Party positions. Earlier in his career he worked in commercial and international banking at Wells Fargo and U.S. Export-Import Bank. He received a B.S. in business finance from Brigham Young University and completed graduate studies in international economics at the University of Utah. He is married to Dr. Laura Bridgewater and is the father of four children: Chelsea, Nathan and twins, Brandon and Lily.

Matthew Peterson

Mr. Peterson is responsible for all entrepreneurial outreach, including sourcing Utah-based companies and matching them with appropriate sources of capital. In addition, Mr. Peterson has personally negotiated with more than 100 private equity buyout groups and heads the Utah Fund of Funds origination effort in that area. In addition, Mr. Peterson coordinates financial reporting requirements for the program. Prior to joining Utah Fund of Funds, Mr. Peterson worked as a senior M&A Advisor with IndustryPro, a middle-market investment bank (private equity focus), where he personally led successful buyout and growth-equity transactions with aggregate values in excess of $200 million. Prior to IndustryPro, Mr. Peterson worked as a financial consultant with Tosh Financial, one of the largest and fastest-growing neighborhood finance companies in the nation. Mr. Peterson began his career in the finance department at the American Standard Companies in Campinas, Brazil. He is an active volunteer in the community and regularly works- and raises money for non-profit organizations, including Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Mr. Peterson enjoys cycling, studying languages, and being a sports fan. Mr. Peterson received a B.A. in Finance and an MBA from the University of Utah.

Tamee Roberts

Miss Tamee Roberts is the Office, Projects, and Government Relations Manager at the Utah Fund of Funds. She is responsible for various special projects, daily office management and securing grant funding to further the Utah FoF's economic development and entrepreneurial programs. Miss Roberts spent five years (2001-2005) as a program specialist with the Governor's Office of Economic Development (formerly DCED) running state incentive programs, including grants, loans and tax incentive legislation. As Program Specialist, she was instrumental in successfully recovering more than $5 million in state-owed funds and incenting more than 20 companies to relocate to or expand in the State of Utah, which in turn created hundreds of high-paying jobs. Previously employed as the Education Liaison for Governor Leavitt's office in 2000, she brings to the Utah Fund of Funds extensive experience in government and state economic development. Miss Roberts has a keen interest in the Middle East and education development. She studied in Egypt, Israel and Jordan in 1997 and then taught school in the West Bank in 1999. She returned to the region as a finance manager for L-3 Communications from 2005-2006, running local/national payroll, and handled millions of dollars in cash in Baghdad, Balad and Kirkuk, Iraq. In 2007-2008 she taught 7-9th grade Social Studies and Humanities at a State of Utah Charter School, and is published in the field of education leadership in ESL research. She returned to state economic development full-time with the Utah Fund of Funds in 2008. Miss Roberts earned a BA in Political Science Teaching and a History Teaching minor from Brigham Young University in 1991; she holds a Secondary Education Certification in the State of Utah, a Masters in Comparative International Development Education from BYU.