Formerly Chief Executive Officer of the London Stock Exchange listed mobile telecoms software group Artilium plc, valued at over $500 million under his leadership, Robert Marcus is a talented corporate finance dealmaker with a track-record of managing emerging-technology businesses through M&A to IPO / exit.
An expert in the business and technology of the mobile internet, the fusion of computing and other information technologies, media content and mobile telecoms systems, he spent nearly a decade at Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters, serving most recently as a director on the company’s M&A team.
Robert led unified communications strategy at Microsoft, architecting the mobile internet strategy revealed by Steve Ballmer at SUPERCOMM ’99, and appearing onstage alongside Bill Gates to detail the company’s convergence plans at the 2003 International Telecommunications Union meeting in Geneva.
As a Solution CEO at Microsoft he developed a top-performing portfolio of communication and collaboration solutions, estimated to have earned the company over $100 million.
Robert is the author of Collective Knowledge(Microsoft Press, 2002) a business and technical book on communication and content management, in its 3rd printing with more than 30,000 copies sold in several languages.
Before joining Microsoft, he was a founder of 3 successful start-ups and led a turnaround, generating 2 IPOs.
He currently serves as Chairman of MeCanto, an award winning mobile music technology platform, and as a member of the board of Buzzinbees, developer of SS7, IMS and LTE platforms deployed in the majority of telephone networks,
He graduated from Antioch University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology
Robert Marcus, Chairman & CEO
Formerly Chief Executive Officer of the London Stock Exchange listed mobile telecoms software group Artilium plc, valued at over $500 million under his leadership, Robert Marcus is a talented corporate finance dealmaker with a track-record of managing emerging-technology businesses through M&A to IPO / exit.
An expert in the business and technology of the mobile internet, the fusion of computing and other information technologies, media content and mobile telecoms systems, he spent nearly a decade at Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters, serving most recently as a director on the company’s M&A team.
Robert led unified communications strategy at Microsoft, architecting the mobile internet strategy revealed by Steve Ballmer at SUPERCOMM ’99, and appearing onstage alongside Bill Gates to detail the company’s convergence plans at the 2003 International Telecommunications Union meeting in Geneva.
As a Solution CEO at Microsoft he developed a top-performing portfolio of communication and collaboration solutions, estimated to have earned the company over $100 million.
Robert is the author of Collective Knowledge (Microsoft Press, 2002) a business and technical book on communication and content management, in its 3rd printing with more than 30,000 copies sold in several languages.
Before joining Microsoft, he was a founder of 3 successful start-ups and led a turnaround, generating 2 IPOs.
He currently serves as Chairman of MeCanto, an award winning mobile music technology platform, and as a member of the board of Buzzinbees, developer of SS7, IMS and LTE platforms deployed in the majority of telephone networks,
He graduated from Antioch University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology