Tim Marklein
Executive Vice President and General Manager
Weber Shandwick Northern California

One of Silicon Valley’s most respected strategists and PR leaders, Tim Marklein leads Weber Shandwick’s Northern California business, including its 40-person San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. His teams represent some of the world’s most powerful technology and consumer brands, including Agilent, BEA Systems, Cisco, Clorox and Hitachi, as well as an array of mid-size companies and promising startups.

Marklein brings deep technology and corporate communications experience to Weber Shandwick, including competitive strategy, positioning, analyst and media relations, financial communications, public affairs and crisis management. His prior agency teams have delivered high-impact results for industry leaders like HP, Oracle, Cisco, Adobe, VeriSign and Veritas; mid-size players like StorageTek, SeeBeyond, AltaVista and EFI; and successful startups including Informatica, Vitria, Linuxcare, 3PAR and PayPal.

Marklein joined Weber Shandwick from Hewlett-Packard, where he most recently led global analyst and public relations for HP’s $30 billion enterprise business. Prior to that role, Marklein was director of corporate media relations and spearheaded post-merger PR efforts to communicate “new HP” strategy, integration progress and business results.

Marklein also spent eight years at Applied Communications Group, where he was a senior vice president and partner, helping grow the business from $1 million to $12 million in annual revenues. During his tenure, Marklein led several client teams, launched the firm’s analyst relations practice, and managed the firm’s award-winning research practice.

Earlier, Marklein was the founding editor and publisher of Envision Magazine, targeted at the “GenX” audience, and an account executive at Jennings & Company, a Silicon Valley communications firm that was later purchased by GCI. He began his career as a reporter at the Milwaukee Sentinel.

Marklein holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University.

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