McCombs Alumni Network News

From McCombs Director of Communications David Wenger and ID University
Tim Washer, MBA ’96, describes himself as a host, comedian, writer and Presbyterian. He has appeared on Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and that is all the more interesting to me because he is also the social media communications manager at IBM. What first [...]

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From Advertising Age
It’s certainly not unusual that a stand up comedian like Tim Washer would be producing absurdist viral videos. What is surprising is that the IBM communications executive is doing so for his straight-laced corporate employer. He appeared at a Business Development Institute seminar on corporate social media practices last week. There, he championed [...]

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Read our sneak preview of the upcoming Texas magazine story, “Ask the Expert,” with a profiles of Suzanne Mahoney, MBA ’99, who shares her experience working with the Presidential inauguration, and Tim Washer, MBA ’96, who gives tips for making Power Point presentations “less boring.”. Keep an eye on your mailbox for the 2009 Spring/Summer issue of [...]

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Ridgefield resident Tim Washer is by day a modern Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, commuting to a corporate communications job at a Fortune 500 company and planning PowerPoint presentations on marketing or profit margins.
But for years he secretly longed to do stand-up comedy, and one day, after seeing him crack up colleagues at the [...]

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