Tim Renner Motor Entertainment Managing Director Tim Renner was born in 1964 in Berlin. In 1984 he began to study German language and soon left University to work as a journalist and book writer, and created a press agency for city magazines. During his inquiries for an undercover story about the music industry in 1986 he joined the Polydor label and changed career orientations. He signed the Berlin based band Element Of Crime and his first chart hit was with the pop avant-gardist Phillip Boa from Dortmund. In 1989 he took over the management of the new founded Polydor Progressive Music Division. Five years later, he established and ran a new record label within the PolyGram Group, the Motor Music Ltd. With Motor Music, he developed acts like Philip Boa, Tocotronic, Absolute Beginner and international artists like Portishead, 2Pac, A*Teens and The Cardigans. Tim Renner's biggest success was achieved with the band Rammstein from Berlin. Rammstein is one of the few German bands, which is also very successful on an international level. They sold over 5 million albums copies worldwide and the album Sehnsucht received gold status in the USA. In 1998 when PolyGram merged with Universal, Tim Renner took over the position as President of the newly formed company Universal Music Germany. Here he worked with a wide range of stars including Eminem, Sting, Texas, Pavarotti, U2, Bon Jovi, Howard Carpendale and Rosenstolz. Tim never lost interest in national artists. In 2004, when Universal wanted to part from many national artists, Renner resigned. After a journey around the world Renner published a book about the media industry in September 2004 and is one of a hundred managers worldwide who have been nominated as Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. Last Updated 18. February 2005