Burghardt Tenderich, PhD, is a professor of practice at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles, where he teaches and researches about strategic communication, the emerging media environment, media entrepreneurship and brand purpose. Tenderich is associate director of Annenberg’s Strategic Communication and Public Relations Center. He is author of the book Transmedia Branding, USC Annenberg Press (2015), together with Jerried Williams.

At the University of California at Berkeley, Tenderich was the executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology and a lecturer on entrepreneurship. Tenderich has over 20 years experience in communication and marketing in the information technology and internet industries.

Industry appointments include general manager, North America, for technology communications consultancy Bite Communications; vice president, public relations at Siebel Systems; and senior vice president and partner in technology public relations agency Applied Communications. In 2016, Tenderich co-founded Cardisio GmbH, an innovative, AI-based mobile health tech company in Frankfurt, Germany, that aims to steeply improve heart health by screening non-invasively for coronary artery disease and other heart conditions.

Tenderich holds an MA and a PhD in economic geography from the University of Bonn, Germany.