Board of Directors

The MVCA is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors consisting of 15 members.

Tim Petersen

Tim Petersen is a Managing Director with Arboretum Ventures, a healthcare-focused venture capital firm with $235 million under management that is headquartered in Ann Arbor. Tim led Arboretum’s investments in HealthMedia (acquired by Johnson & Johnson) and Accuri Cytometers (acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company) and served on the Board of Directors of each company prior to exit. He also led Arboretum’s investments in a number of other promising companies, including Advanced ICU Care, Inogen, PathCentral, ArborMetrix, and Tangent, and presently serves as a director of these companies. Tim is responsible for Arboretum’s financial and fund management activities and is a member of the Investment Committee. He has been a venture capital investor for the past twelve years.

Prior to joining Arboretum in 2002, Tim was the Managing Director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan, leading the creation and rapid growth of the Institute's programs. He also directed the Wolverine Venture Fund (WVF), the Institute's venture capital fund focusing on early-stage life science and technology investments. Previously, Tim spent nine years at the economic consulting firm Industrial Economics, Inc., becoming a member of the firm's senior staff in 1991. Tim earned a BA in Economics from Williams College, where he was captain of the men’s tennis team. He also holds an MS in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Jim Adox