Tim Leberecht

Marketer and author, San Francisco

Tim Leberecht is the VP of Marketing and Communications at frog design, the global innovation firm that has helped Apple, GE, HP, Sony, and many other leading brands create and bring to market groundbreaking products and services. Previously, Tim was the head of corporate communications with Mindjet Corporation, a provider of enterprise productivity software. Prior to Mindjet, he served as press chief for the Athens 2004 International Olympic Torch Relay, in marketing communications for Deutsche Telekom, and in an interactive marketing agency in Berlin. He started his professional career as a musician.

Tim writes the iPlot blog and is a member of the CNET blog network. He has been published and quoted in publications such as Fast Company, Brand Week, Inc, Jerusalem Post, ABC, NPR, Financial Times, Al Jazeera, Global Entrepreneur, and others, and has spoken about marketing, innovation, and design at conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia. He is a member of the advisory board of Design Ignites Change.

Tim holds a masters’ degree in cultural sciences from the University of Luneburg in Germany and a masters’ degree in communication management from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.