Timm Tuttle specializes in business development involving Japan. An Illinois native based in Tokyo, he graduated from the Master of Economics graduate program at Tsukuba University, with additional time spent in high school and undergraduate studies in Japan. For ten years, he was the Tokyo-based senior Japan trade advisor for the State of Washington's economic development agency, assisting state businesses to expand their exports to Japan while attracting investment from Japan to the state. Through this background, he brings to Paccess business experience and contacts in industries from aerospace to consumer goods, as well as fluency in the language. Timm is also a lifelong student of IT, active in web application development based on content management systems.