Since April of 2016, Timothy Bean has been the Chief Executive Officer of Fortem Technologies, bringing more than 25 years of global executive experience building deep tech products and systems to advance society, most recently at Fortem protecting critical venues, campuses and cities from AI-drive autonomous robotic drone attacks and creating safe air corridors to support emerging air mobility solutions around the globe.

He is passionate to build businesses to forward the nation’s progress for a safer and more secure world. Shortly after 9/11, Tim was a founding executive and VP of Engineering and later Chief Revenue Officer of a company that worked closely with law enforcement and allies of the USA to deliver signal intelligence solutions to find and stop terrorists.

Tim began his career as an engineer at Aspect Communications, where he was responsible for all software development for their flagship telecommunication products, generating over $500M in annual revenue for the product line. Tim earned his B.S. in Design Engineering from BYU. A frequent speaker at international counter terror and airspace security events, Tim is an active member of AUVSI, The Security Industry Association, Airforce Association, and is a member of key airspace industry organizations including ACI. He serves on the Board of PJFL and Zapmoto. He has been widely quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, CNN and The Atlantic. Born and raised near Cleveland, Ohio, Tim is married with kids and remains a passionate Cleveland sports fan, where he’s been trying to convert his family to root for his hometown teams for more years than he’s willing to admit.