Timothy Dattels serves as a Senior Advisor to TPG Global, having served as Partner of TPG Capital and Chairman of TPG Asia and a member of the firm's Management Committee. In this role, he has been based in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Singapore. Prior to joining TPG in 2004, Tim served as a Partner and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs and Head of Investment Banking in Asia.He received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the University of Western Ontario. He serves or has served on the Boards of Directors of Sagard Holdings, Cushman & Wakefield, BlackBerry, Invest in Canada, Parkway Holdings, Primedia Inc., Shangri-La Asia Ltd., Sing Tao News Corporation Ltd., and SFJazz. He is the Chairman of The Jackson Laboratory which is an independent not for profit biomedical research institution focused on discovering the genetic basis for preventing and curing human disease and to enable research and education for the global biomedical community. In addition, Tim serves as the Chairman of Alpine Canada Alpin, the national governing body for para-alpine, ski cross and alpine high-performance ski racing in Canada. He has also been appointed by the Prime Minister of Canada as a representative on the APEC Business Council.