Tim Berry

Tim Berry (born 1948) is an American entrepreneur and published business author. He is the founder and chairman of Palo Alto Software and bplans.com.

History Berry was born and raised in the U.S., but moved with his wife to Mexico City in 1971 where he worked as a wire service journalist for United Press International and then wrote for McGraw-Hill and Businessweek for five years. In 1983, Berry founded his company, then called "Infoplan"; the name was changed to Palo Alto Software in 1988. The company started out selling business plan templates, supplemented by Berry's consulting, mostly focused on doing business in Latin America. and almost was bankrupt by 1994; Berry had three mortgages and $65,000 in credit card debt. In 1994, the company released the first version of its Business Plan Pro software, In 1995, Berry launched BPlans.com as resource for small businesses.

Sales recovered, and in 2010 the company had $10M in annual revenue. In that year, Berry's daughter, Sabrina Parsons, took over as CEO, and Berry began devoting this time to blogging, teaching, and writing.

Berry served as an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Oregon.

Writings and publications Berry contributes content to various business-oriented websites, as well as his own blog and has become well known as an entrepreneur on Twitter.

He is the author of the following books:

Family and personal

Berry has been married to his wife since 1970. He has five children.