Tim Leberecht

Marketer and author, San Francisco

Tim Leberecht is Chief Marketing Officer of the Aricent Group, a global innovation and technology services company with 10,000 employees in 36 locations worldwide that helps Fortune 500 companies create, commercialize, and evolve products and services for the “connected world.”

Tim is also Chief Marketing Officer of Aricent’s design and innovation unit frog, which has developed and brought to market product and service innovations for Apple, AT&T, BMW, Disney, GE, HP, Intel, SAP, Siemens, Sony, and many other Fortune 500 brands. He is also the publisher of frog’s award-winning design mind print and online magazine, and the curator of “The Meaning of Business” series.

Before joining frog in 2006, Tim was the Director of Corporate Communications with Mindjet Corporation, a provider of “mind-mapping” productivity and brainstorming software for the enterprise. Prior to Mindjet, he served as press chief for the first-ever global Olympic Torch Relay leading up to the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. He also worked in marketing communications for Deutsche Telekom’s corporate venture capital arm T-Venture and for digital marketing agencies in Germany.

An avid blogger and writer, Tim is a frequent resource to various media. His writings on marketing, innovation, and design topics have appeared in outlets such as Wired, Rotman Magazine, Economic Observer, CEO/CIO Magazine, The European, CNET, Poptech, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and he has been quoted by publications such as Brand Week, NPR, Fortune, the Jerusalem Post, the Hindu Business Line, and NDTV/National India Television, among others.

He has spoken at conferences including Next, Re:Publica, IABC, Futurist CMO Summit, eMarketing Conference, B2B Indian Marketing Summit, China Original Design Fair, i7 Innovation summit, World Investment Conferences, and at Carnegie Mellon University.

Tim has been selected as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on “Values and Decision-Making,” 2011-2012, and serves on the advisory board of Design Ignites Change. He participated in a series of expert hearings on a future vision for Germany, held by the German Federal Chancellery.

Tim holds a masters’ degree in applied cultural sciences from the University of Lüneburg in Germany and a masters’ degree in communication management from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Tim was born and raised in Germany before moving to California in 2003. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Sarah and their daughter Harper Ava.