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Mike
Isaacs.

Founder & CEO · Tymmber Outdoor Products · Sierra County, New Mexico

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Mike Isaacs Founder & CEO · Tymmber Outdoor
The Founder

Nine Years.
1,000 Nights.
30,000 Miles.

The product is not theoretical. It was built in the field — tested across every terrain, season, and condition for nearly a decade before a single investor was asked to evaluate it.

Mike Isaacs has spent nine years in the field — 1,000+ nights outdoors across all terrains and seasons, 30,000 miles traveled — developing the product, intellectual, and business architecture that became Tymmber Outdoor Products.

His background spans IBM-era technology sales and Connected Home product management, which informs the systems-thinking approach to Tymmber's hardware-content-AI ecosystem. He is the author of Right Is Might and The Scholastic Trap, with a section of Right Is Might selected for publication in the Francis Bacon Society's Baconiana Journal (London, 2025).

Mike developed The Authentic Method — a nine-year empirical framework for distinguishing authentic from manufactured authority — as the philosophical foundation connecting all three Tymmber pillars. His thesis: the same manufactured dependency that corrupted the outdoor gear industry corrupted institutions broadly. The antidote is the same in both cases — tools that build capability, not dependency.

He is also the story behind Living on Hopes and Dreams — the film that anchors the Narrative Arm of the Tymmber ecosystem. February 2021. New Mexico mountains. A Guatemalan asylum seeker climbed the hill to his camp. Four days later, both their lives had changed.

9 Yrs Field R&D
1,000+ Nights Outdoors
30,000 Miles
Published IP · 2026
IBM Technology Sales
NMSU 400-Level Engineering
Los Alamos Lab Validated
WGA: 2156326
Baconiana Journal · London
9Years Field R&D4-season · Sub-zero to 110°F · All terrain
$16MTotal Raise$4M Pre-Seed + $12M Film Round
$275KCustomer LTVHitch to Home · Full ecosystem journey
2026Published IPBaconiana Journal · Francis Bacon Society · London
Advisory Group

The People Behind
the Vision

Experienced operators, builders, and domain experts who are actively engaged — not just lending their names — in helping Tymmber grow from prototype to market.

Jared ChatterleyPhoto
Jared Chatterley
Principal, OREC Consulting
Race Director
Nearly three decades in the field — from British Columbia to Florida, Canada to New Mexico.
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Greg Gudorf
Founder, The Gudorf Group
Former CEO, Pure Flix
Forty years building things at the edge of technology and human behavior — from launching SonyStyle.com to leading Pure Flix through its most consequential years of growth.
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Geof Todd
Founder & MD, TODD Creative Services
Non-Executive Director, inQube
Fifty years at the intersection of technology, sales, and marketing — from the frontline of the DTP Revolution through the early web, Big Data, 3D tech, and streaming becoming the new broadcasting.
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W. James Hettrick
Solutions Architect II, TEKsystems Global Services
Former CIO, City of Loma Linda
Nearly three decades wiring the places everyone else forgot — fiber to the home in rural California, broadband across 1.4 million acres of tribal land, government IT infrastructure for cities and nations. W.
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Don Nicholson
Independent Consultant, GEO & LEO Satellite
Former Viasat Business Development
He built a satellite TV business from zero to 1.2 million subscribers and watched it sell for nearly $400 million. He spent a decade at Viasat connecting farms and forgotten communities to the internet.
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Chris Adams
Founder & CEO, BOOK Tech Labs
Hospitality Operator & Revenue Technologist
Thirty-plus years running world-class hotels across Asia, China, and Southeast Asia — then building the software to fix what operators know is broken.
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Garry Pratt
Author, The Creativity Factor
Practitioner of Cognitive Rewilding
He has spent his career at the intersection of the outdoors and human performance — leading executives and innovators into wild terrain to restore the clarity that offices and boardrooms quietly destroy.
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Christian Weber
Founder, SHIFTPOD
Advanced Shelter Systems, Inc.
He built a shelter that deploys in under two minutes, exceeds United Nations field standards, and was born from a moment of clarity at Burning Man. Turns out the best product ideas arrive when you're sitting on the ground.
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Jonathan Weech
Sr. Director, Product Marketing & Management · Micron Technology
Co-Founder, Dedicated Devices
Thirty years building products at the intersection of hardware, connectivity, and software — from co-founding a pioneer in digital home entertainment networks to leading consumer storage roadmaps for one of the world's most consequential semiconductor companies.
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Darren Rawson
President, Sitton Flooring
Founding Partner, E4D AI Solutions
More than two decades of C-suite leadership across B2B distribution, consumer electronics, international market entry, and MRO — from building a national retail footprint for the #1 CE brand in Latin America, to scaling a $1.5B HD Supply business unit, to driving 28% CAGR growth and 800 basis points of margin improvement at AZ Partsmaster.
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Shane A. Asbury
Owner, Wanderlust Running Unlimited
Race Director, Ironman 70.3 Ruidoso
Shane Asbury spent twenty years building sales teams, developing markets, and turning around underperforming operations in the health and fitness industry before he did something most people only talk about — he converted his life's passion into a full-time operation.
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Joel Hartter
Founder, Parallel Labs
Professor & Project Director, University of Colorado
Joel Hartter has spent more than two decades at the intersection of the outdoors, sustainability, and human development — not as a commentator, but as a builder.
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The Journey

Nine Years.
Every Mile Documented.

2016
R&D Begins
NM Small Business Grants. NMSU/Sandia. Silicon Valley design study. Los Alamos National Lab. The mission takes shape.
2018
Field Validation
Product concept refined through live field testing across all terrains and seasons. The RAAK concept proven in the field.
2021
The Encounter · The Script
February 2021 — Miguel climbs the hill. Four days. New Mexico mountains. The story that became Living on Hopes and Dreams. Screenplay written with Teri Anne Kopp. WGA: 2156326.
2023
Prototype Complete · IP Published
Functional RAAK prototype built and field-validated. Right Is Might manuscript complete. Section selected for Baconiana Journal, Francis Bacon Society, London.
2025
Sovereign Architecture Complete
Full ecosystem architecture locked — Hardware, Content, AI. Investor Portal live. LOHD film page live. Tymmber U operational. Sovereign Circle active.
2026
Raise Open · Now
$4M Pre-Seed (RAAK) + $12M Film Production Round open. Advisory group assembling. First commercial production run planned.

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