Randolf Hillebrand was born and raised in Germany and graduated from the University of Cologne with a master in History, Political Science and German Language.
He started his career as a print journalist for Handelsblatt, Germany’s biggest daily business newspaper and was promoted to Editor In Chief for Handelsblatt’s career website karriere.de in 2000.
By 2001 Randolf’s responsibilities included running the online career sections of wirtschaftswoche.de and dmeuro.com, both leading business magazines in Germany.
In 2002 he founded brandbuero, a full service online consulting agency for the publishing industry. Since then, brandbuero’s media department has successfully advised its clients in the publishing world on new media content, business strategies and online-marketing. Today brandbuero’s high profile clients include publishers like Axel Springer, Gruner & Jahr, Conde Nast, Bauer Verlag or DIE ZEIT Verlag.
In 2005 Randolf moved to Los Angeles to research internet trends for the publishing industry and to create marketing strategies for his clients in the publishing world.
In 2006, he co-founded mba-channel.com. The MBA Channel connects all pertinent groups involved in providing education towards Master of Business Administration degrees: Business schools, corporations and prospective students.