Tim is Chief Executive of the City of Wolverhampton Council. Prior to this, he was the council's Deputy Managing Director and Strategic Director of Place where his portfolio of responsibilities included city development, city housing, city transport, city environment, corporate property and commercialism.

Tim is an experienced strategic local government director, specialising in place shaping, organisational change management and community regeneration. He has a proven track record of developing and delivering complex, innovative projects and programmes and has overseen a regeneration programme which has £4.4 billion of public and private investment either on site or planned in the city.

Tim has over 20 years' experience in local government working for Liverpool City Council, London Borough of Hillingdon, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council and Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council before joining the City of Wolverhampton Council in May 2013.

He represents City of Wolverhampton Council on a number of external forums across the region and city including the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC), the Association of Black Country Authorities and Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).