Tim Ehrhard

Tim is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology. He spent twenty years at Merrill Corporation, a global leader in financial and document services, and was honored to be part of the creation and implementation of several business-changing platforms, departments, and teams at that time. He enjoyed filing IPOs for hundreds of new startups, and compliance filings to the SEC for Fortune 1000 companies and Mutual Funds. Tim was part of the discovery and development team that built the first virtual deal room on the market, which still stands as a leader in the industry over a decade later. He was the key IT leader in restructuring an international translations company, replacing internal processes and systems to achieve efficiency, growth, and profitability. Tim has also worked for a Hong Kong-based global relocations company as the domestic IT Director and was CIO with a start-up business supplying a content and inventory management system to support sales of premium brand cars (Porsche, Land Rover, Rolls Royce, Jaguar, BMW, and McLaren. The application served close to 1000 different dealership websites from a single platform. Most recently, Tim spent the last 5 years working as the Director and head of IT for the National Organization for Rare Disorders working on all internal systems, websites, and registry products. Tim is excited to continue contributing to the Rare Community as the Sr Director of IT at Global Genes. He will be focusing on the advancement of technology for the cause and doing work that truly gives back to the rare community needs.