Meet the Team
The Man Behind the Curtain
Tim Monner
Founder of The Marketing Mindscape
Tim started his marketing career in 1999 as a wide-eyed marketing production manager, building creative campaigns for Applied Systems, an insurance software company just south of Chicago. He had just moved to the Chicago area from Iowa with two undergraduate degrees in Marketing and Graphic Communications and Design, plus half of an MBA.
Since then, he has sat in nearly every seat at the marketing table. As Global Manager of Integrated Marketing at Panduit, he helped lead and brand the SmartZone software and hardware solution suite. As Director of Marketing for ServerCentral (now Summit), he built out an entire marketing organization and helped bring new cloud technologies to market. From there came VP of Marketing and Sales at Steadfast (now Hivelocity), Director of Marketing at OpenMetal, and most recently Chief Marketing Officer at BigScoots.
Today, Tim brings all 25+ years of that experience to The Marketing Mindscape, helping companies of every size with GTM strategy, brand, demand generation, and sales alignment that actually works, and sharing the real-world lessons (and scars) with the marketers doing the work every day.
And yes, Tim did finally finish that MBA.
Experience is the Best Teacher
25+ years across startups, scale-ups, and global enterprises. Here is where the lessons were learned.
Chief Marketing Officer
Managed WordPress hosting company known for high-performance infrastructure and hands-on, expert-level support.
Director of Marketing
On-demand private cloud and bare metal infrastructure provider built on OpenStack and open source technologies.
VP of Marketing & Sales
Chicago-based cloud, dedicated server, and colocation provider, now part of Hivelocity's global bare metal platform.
Director of Marketing
Chicago-based colocation, cloud, and managed infrastructure provider that became Deft and now operates as Summit.
Global Manager, Integrated Marketing
Global manufacturer of network, electrical, and data center infrastructure solutions, headquartered in the Chicago area.
Marketing Project Manager
Financial services industry association delivering research, training, and events for banks and credit unions.
Marketing Production Manager
Leading provider of insurance software, including agency and brokerage management systems, based south of Chicago.
Sales
Longtime Quad Cities daily newspaper serving Moline, Rock Island, and the surrounding region, now online at QConline.
Sales
Independent Quad Cities publication covering local news, politics, arts, entertainment, and events.
Featured Media
As Seen & Heard
Podcasts, interviews, and spotlights where Tim talks marketing, partnerships, hosting, and the occasional rock-band flashback.
Tim joins Greyd's Sandra Kurze to talk about building partnerships that create real value for shared customers, not just extra sales reach.
From a '90s Quad Cities rock band to leading marketing at BigScoots, Tim talks about how a creative background shapes an ethical approach to marketing.
Tim shares how BigScoots scaled to tens of thousands of customers without losing personal service, and where AI fits behind the scenes.
A look at Tim's two decades building marketing teams in tech infrastructure, and why the WordPress community's open, collaborative spirit matters.
Recorded during his Steadfast days, Tim discusses how the pandemic sped up cloud adoption and how organizations can move off on-prem infrastructure.