Timothy C. Perry
About Tim Perry
Tim Perry is an experienced lawyer, former federal prosecutor, law enforcement leader, law professor, and operating executive. Tim is currently Vice President of Strategy and General Counsel at Prepared, a public safety AI company that has raised over $100M in venture capital from a16z, General Catalyst, First Round, M13, and Radical Ventures.
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In 2008-14, Tim served as an Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of California, where he led numerous investigations into corporate fraud and public corruption, including the then-largest ever conspiracy to funnel illegal foreign money into US elections. In 2013, Tim was awarded the US Attorney General's Award, the Department's highest honor.
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After leaving DOJ, Tim spent several years in private practice at WilmerHale, advising boards of directors, CEOs, and general counsels in high-stakes litigation and internal investigations around the world.
In 2019-20, Tim left private practice to serve as Governor Gavin Newsom's appointed chief of staff and deputy homeland security advisor at California's Office of Emergency
Services (Cal OES), running day-to-day operations from the Paradise Fire cleanup to the Covid-19 pandemic. Tim also managed the agency's "peacetime" operations, administering the agency's sizeable homeland security and justice grant programs and maintaining California's 911 infrastructure. Prior to this, Tim was co-chair of the Newsom campaign's Defending California's Values policy committee and served as a lawyer to the campaign.
In 2021-22, Tim joined the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Inauguration Day as part of a small team of appointees responsible for making time-sensitive policy changes and establishing the administration's working relationship with career law enforcement leaders. Tim became the chief of staff and most senior appointee at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in effect leading ICE, the country's second-largest investigative agency with over 21,000 personnel spread across 90 countries. During Tim's tenure, the agency doubled ICE's arrests and prosecutions of aggravated felons while implementing several reform measures. Also during Tim's tenure, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) expanded its footprint and activities overseas, seizing more than 2.6 million barrels of illicit Iranian oil, initiating a global investigation into the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, and spearheading countless operations in support of US interests around the world.
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Currently as Vice President of Strategy and General Counsel at Prepared, Tim oversees the company's strategic initiatives, sources acquisition targets, and sponsors high priority deals. Prepared has brought assistive artificial intelligence to 911 centers across the country, reducing emergency response times and delivering more timely and actionable intelligence to first responders. Tim also teaches law as an adjunct professor at Berkeley Law School, and serves as one of the Governor's appointed commissioners on the California Aging Commission.
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In addition to the US Attorney General's Award, Tim, a Fulbright Scholar, is a recipient of numerous commendations from DHS. Tim clerked for the Honorable Peter W. Hall on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and worked for the Honorable Joyce L. Kennard of the California Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Berkeley Law School (JD), the University of Cape Town, South Africa (MSc, Political Studies), and Brown University (AB, Linguistics).
