Tim Rowe is the founder and CEO of CIC, a global leader in building and operating innovation campuses globally, focused on supporting the growth of startups and entrepreneurs. Since 1999, he has grown CIC from a single 2,700 SF location in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts to a global company that manages more than 1.5 million SF of shared workspace, wet labs, and event space. Among the notable organizations that spent their early days at CIC are Google Android and HubSpot. Rowe currently serves as the chair of Venture Café Global Institute, and was the founding chair of LabCentral, MassRobotics, and the first president of the Kendall Square Association. Rowe holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a BA from Amherst College. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, Japanese, and basic Mandarin Chinese.

He is an inaugural honoree in The Boston Globe's Tech Power Players 50 list (2022), the recipient of The Margaret Fuller House 2022 Lt. Kinney Award for Exceptional Community Service, a past Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, and a Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree. In 2025, he was recognized with Japan’s Foreign Minister’s Award for his contributions to economic exchange between Japan and the United States.