Tim Mott

Timothy J. Mott is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Macromedia in July 1992 with Bud Colligan.

Mott previously worked at Xerox PARC where he worked with Larry Tesler on creating graphical user interface concepts such as cut-and-paste. He later became a founding member of Electronic Arts. Mott was CEO of MacroMind-Paracomp when it merged with Authorware Inc., to form Macromedia. He served as the first CEO of Macromedia and stepped down on January 1, 1993 to spend more time with his family. He remained as chairman of the board until 1994.