Tim Gilchrist PMP^® is co-founder of Microengagement; a crowdsourcing company that helps businesses connect and collaborate with their brand supporters. Microengagement uses the power of collective wisdom to rapidly develop products, services and predict market trends. He is a frequent speaker and blogger on the emerging field of crowdsourcing.

Prior to starting Microengagement Tim spent much of his career in corporate marketing and internet positions. Starting with Value Health in the early 90's, Tim was responsible for marketing & communications of the consulting and software development divisions of the company that grew from a 6-person startup to IPO and ultimate sale for $1.3 billion.

In 1997 Value Health was sold and Tim became Webmaster for Aetna where he sheparded their movement into ecommerce. During his time at Aetna, Web activity went from a few visitors per month to over 2 million, carrying out transactions from physician profiling, investor relations to 401k transactions. Tim was part of the original team who developed www.intellihealth.com, one of the first health information portals. His work on Aetna's employee intranet was also featured in the landmark book "The Cluetrain Manifesto."

In 2001 he became Senior Vice President of Sales and Product Development for Fiserv, a Fortune 500 financial services company. During his tenure, sales of consumer equity lending and geographic information system (GIS) product lines grew over 400% to $500 million.

While not at work, Tim is a lecturer on media and technology at Columbia University, member of the Yale University biofuels program, and board member of the Marketing Executives Networking Group. He has published three books on the science of Ergonomics and is a contributing author to Fine Wood Working Magazine. Tim holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Communications from The University of Hartford and Bachelors in Journalism from Boston University.

Contact Tim

Tim's Blog on Crowdsourcing