Austrian native he studied business administration at the University of Linz, Austria and Linnaeus University Växjö, Sweden, majoring in service management and international business.

Still undergraduate he started to work in 2000 as Infotrainer at the Ars Electronica Center, including several stints abroad. Following graduation he spent three years as club manager at the Luftenberg Golf Club.

Since August 2008, he has been back at Ars Electronica: first as assistant to the CFO and establishing the event services division; since January 1, 2011, manager of the Ars Electronica Center.

In 2014/15 he was the project manager of the “Deep Space 8K” and is furthermore responsible for close collaboration with international science organisations like ESA – European Space Agency.

Tim Bucher is currently senior vice president of Seagate's Consumer Group. Prior to joining Seagate, Tim was the founder and CEO of Lyve Minds, Inc., a technology startup in Silicon Valley focused on helping consumers manage their digital life memories. In the past 30 years, Tim has created several successful companies in consumer products, storage technology, cloud services, and IoT ecosystems and helped tech giants such as Apple, Microsoft, and Dell Apple drive consumer innovation and expand their businesses. He was the founder and CEO of ZING Systems, Mirra, Inc. (purchased by Seagate in 2005), and TastingRoom.com. Before starting ZING Systems, Tim served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Apple Computer, where he oversaw the development of all Macintosh products and iPod technologies. He has also been vice president of Consumer Products for Microsoft and vice president of Engineering and Operations for WebTV Networks (acquired by Microsoft in 1997), where he led all TV and DVR product initiatives. Tim was part of the founding Xbox team at Microsoft and a lead architect with gaming systems pioneer The 3DO Company. He also worked as an engineering director at NeXT Computer (acquired by Apple) and lead engineer in the 80’s on several advanced workstations at Sun Microsystems (now part of Oracle). Tim holds numerous patents in networking technology, user interface design, computer and processor design, graphics technology, on-line customer acquisition algorithms, manufacturing processes, and multimedia technologies.