Jim Tallman is a seasoned C-level executive and board of directors’ member who specializes in working with investors to professionalize and grow technology, software and services companies with the ultimate goal of facilitating a successful exit event (IPO, market recap, acquisition).
Jim excels at developing and leading management teams to define the market opportunity, develop the business plans and product strategy that will drive growth, and implement the operational discipline that ensures scalability, market leadership, and produce market leading revenue and EBITDA growth.
After holding senior leadership positions for over 25 years, Jim found a home as Chief Executive Officer, President, and Member of Board of Directors for Datacert, Inc. (now Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions). Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions is the global market leader for transformative legal software and ranked one of the world’s largest legal service organizations.
While operating as CEO/President of Datacert, Jim was engaged by the Board of Directors to professionalize the company, re-engineer the technology and establish a broader set market offerings to regenerate growth and profitability. He also led a 6-year turnaround that positioned Datacert as the largest, fasting growing, most profitable company in the market. The results of the turnaround were 20-25% multiyear high revenue growth and EBITDA of 20-25%, resulting in an enterprise valuation exceeding 5X trailing revenue.
Following 5 years of record growth, Datacert was sold to Wolters Kluwer where he assumed the CEO/GM role for TyMetrix & Datacert, the global leader in Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions.
Jim is currently the CEO and sits on the Board of Directors at Innovative Interfaces, a computer software company. Jim also serves on 7 additional Boards for both US and international companies in a capacity of an independent Board Advisor or Director.
Jim graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemical Engineering.