Ted Molter is the chief marketing officer for San Diego Zoo Global responsible for public relations, creative services, advertising and design, website, publications, interpretation, sales, licensing and partnership marketing activities that support the World-Famous San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research the Society’s scientific division. He joined San Diego Zoo Global in 1998 as the associate marketing director in charge of public relations.  In April 2002 he was promoted to director of marketing. 

Ted came to San Diego from Sea World of Ohio, where he worked for 13 years. His tenure there included positions as a penguin keeper and aquarist, ultimately working his way up to become director of the public relations department. The demands of that position ranged from traveling with Airship Shamu to the filming of the movie Pirates with Leslie Nielsen and Eric Idle for Busch Entertainment Corporation. 

Ted is a graduate of Kent State University with a degree in broadcast communications and a field of concentration in biology.  He is an active member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA); past education and marketing committee chair, past board member and the founding foundation board chair for the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA); board and executive committee member of the San Diego Tourism Authority; and is a board member and past chairman of the California Travel Association.

With the opportunity to reach families around the world with the San Diego Zoo Global mission of conservation, education and family fun, Ted has continued to find ways to combine his passion for animals with an endless desire to share the wonders of nature through innovative marketing and communications programs in Southern California and beyond.