Tim Bridgewater

Biography
Tim Bridgewater was born on November 21, 1960. Bridgewater received his B.S. in Business from Brigham Young University in 1985. He began his career in commercial banking and worked in the Ronald Reagan administration under the auspices of the Treasury Department at Eximbank. Since that time he has worked in business development and private consulting for small and medium sized businesses. Bridgewater has co-founded several small companies, including businesses in environmental services, energy, biotechnology, health care, and multimedia technology industries. He has worked in international markets throughout Latin America and Asia. He is currently serving as the Chairman of Interlink Capital Strategies which he founded in 1994. He has also served as a managing partner and chief financial officer for several businesses, including an investment fund focused on small businesses.
Tim Bridgewater is married to Dr. Laura C. Bridgewater, a professor of Molecular Biology at Brigham Young University. They are the parents of four teenagers.
Political
Bridgewater has previously been elected to be the Utah County Republican Party Chairman, as a delegate to county, state, and national conventions, and as a member of the Utah Republican State Central Committee. He also has served on various government, community and charitable advisory boards.
On March 15, 2010, Bridgewater announced his candidacy in the 2010 election for the U.S. Senate seat currently being held by Senator Bob Bennett. He has "loaned himself" $276,000 to run his campaign.
In a four-way race for the Republican nomination (also in the race are incumbent Bob Bennett and challengers Cherilyn Eagar and Michael S. Lee), The Washington Post has named this one of the top 10 primaries in the nation and MSNBC has called it "he best GOP ideological fight that no one is paying attention to."

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