panam.captain

“My name is Timothy Mellon. Please call me Tim.”

After years of avoiding the spotlight, Timothy Mellon, or Tim as he’d ask you to call him, shares the story of his life in panam.captain. From growing up in Virginia in his family home and farm, to searching for the lost wreckage of Amelia Earhart, panam.captain follows the many opportunities that came Mellon’s way and how he turned them all into success.

While attending Yale, he fell in love with computer programming and started a company out of Guilford, Connecticut in which he was the sole employee. Once taken as far as it could go, he sold the company and moved on to invest in another adventure, making ties for the railways. It naturally followed that instead of supplying the railways, that he should buy a railway. Through his story, Mellon speaks with great passion about the deals and acquisitions that turned into an expanding enterprise.

As a pilot with over 11,500 hours of logged airtime, his next move was to purchase the company Pan Am out of bankruptcy. As owner of the company, and with the skill necessary to do the job, he became a commercial airline pilot and quite literally kept the American institution that is Pan Am flying in the air. panam.captain is a well-documented collection of lessons for business and life, all learned through the expansive experiences and industrious nature of Timothy Mellon.