Helping entrepreneurs to get global exposure for their technologies, ideas and impacts is my passion. As an ambassador for innovation and value-adding investor, I drive global market leadership for challenger brands.
Tilo Bonow is Founder and CEO of Berlin-based PIABO, premier business performance amplifier and premium brand public relations agency for the international digital industry. He is a platinum-level influencer, networker and driver of success for entrepreneurs in global arenas. His business value creation services diligently mix market savvy, resources and relationships to optimally position his clients on the international stage.
Before founding PIABO, Tilo worked as Global Head of Communications alongside Europe’s quintessential digital entrepreneurs, the Samwer brothers. He established PIABO to provide tech entrepreneurs with the dynamics to bring their ideas to market and subsequently grew PIABO’s core business to support entrepreneurs and businesses to actively recognize potentials, identify and achieve growth targets, and ultimately own the market.
Marketing Expert Bonow is both truffle pig and business angel: he and his team have chronicled a successful track record of exponential growth scenarios marked by successful and sustainable entry and exit strategies. Clients include European startups and international tech heavyweights, like Tinder, Evernote, Yelp, Groupon, Withings and LinkedIn. Tilo Bonow is also a passionate and active supporter of the digital ecosystem and a dedicated jury member, panelist, mentor and moderator at numerous conferences and events, including the IBM, Microsoft, DLD, Noah conference, European Venture Summit and Pioneers Festival.
“ My painfully honest feedback may take you out of your comfort zone, but it will also drive your success.”
PR-Professional + Advisor
The core business of PIABO is to assist entrepreneurs and businesses to actively recognize potentials, identify and achieve growth targets, and ultimately own the market. The Berlin-based agency is a business performance amplifier in its function as the next-generation PR engine for the international digital industry – and your company’s successful and sustainable entrance and exit story. Founder and CEO Tilo Bonow and his team have chronicled an exceptional track record with their approach, which applies market savvy, resources and relationships to drive the success of their clients in national and global arenas. Their brand of premium PR features full-service and traditional marketing campaigns as well as strategic social media management and content marketing. PIABO delivers outstanding international media presence and business development strategies that encourage exponential growth.
Keynote Speaker + Moderator
Light Your Fire!
If you want to be successful in the long term, you can’t avoid personal branding. Only those who become visible in the first place with a clear positioning can also find supporters for their goals and actively shape the future. But to be perceived as an individual in a crowded market, you have to communicate unmistakably to the outside world – strategically planned and with a clear objective in mind.
Tilo Bonow, founder and CEO of PIABO PR, shows in his new book “Light Your Fire!” how future makers – and all those who want to become one – can sustainably build a personal brand, based on a concrete strategy. For over 20 years, Tilo Bonow has accompanied leading entrepreneurs from the digital and innovation industries on their path to success and now brings together his practical knowledge in an instructive debut work.
A strategic guide with a high level of practical relevance, ranging from the first step of positioning to the definition of the target group and the selection of channels to the development of messaging. Simple, understandable to the point, and with many illustrative examples.
Mentor + Investor
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