Tim Yates
Member Board Of Directors. Lead Independent Director. Member Of Audit Committee at CommScope
Manchester, England, United States
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Top SchoolTim Yates is a veteran corporate director and finance executive with 14 years of visible tech-era experience and a boardroom career spanning more than four decades, currently serving as Lead Independent Director and Audit Committee member at CommScope. A former CEO and long-tenured CFO at Monster Worldwide and earlier CFO roles at Symbol Technologies and Bankers Trust, he pairs strategic financial stewardship with deep governance expertise. Educated at Yale and Harvard Business School (MBA Finance), he is comfortable bridging complex financial controls, risk oversight, and growth strategy for public and private companies. Less obvious: alongside his board work he contributes technical fixes to the popular Micronaut framework—demonstrating hands-on backend coding humility despite a C-suite pedigree. Based in Manchester with a transatlantic footprint, he brings a rare combination of operational finance, public-company leadership, and practical open-source software engagement.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA American Studies, BA American Studies at Yale UniversityHotchkiss SchoolMBA Finance, MBA Finance at Harvard Business SchoolNA NA, NA NA at Buckley School
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Github contributions (5)
micronaut-projects/micronaut-core
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Micronaut Application Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:344 reviews, 174 commits, 190 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tim made several contributions focused on enhancing the Micronaut core framework. These changes included allowing inherited annotations for nullability, enabling file watcher restarts for messaging applications, rewriting host headers when proxying HTTP clients, and handling void return types from function clients. Furthermore, the user addressed introspection issues related to beans with covariant return types and added a test for setting the management port to the server port.
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timyates/GradientExtractorFX
Jan 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 3 years 4 months
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