Robert Marcus, Chairman & CEO

Robert Marcus is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of QuantumWave Capital, the leader in mobile internet investment banking. Robert created QuantumWave in 2009, and he has infused the firm with his own brand of energetic leadership and passion.

Formerly Chief Executive Officer of the London Stock Exchange-listed mobile internet software group Artilium plc, valued at over $500 million under his leadership, Robert is a mobile internet pioneer and thought-leader. He spent nearly a decade as a senior leader at Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters, serving most recently as a director on the company’s M&A team. He was the architect of the mobile internet strategy revealed by Steve Ballmer at SUPERCOMM ’99, and he appeared onstage alongside Bill Gates to detail the company’s mobile internet plans at the 2003 meeting of the International Telecommunications Union, the United Nations information and communication technology regulatory body. As a Solution CEO at Microsoft, he developed a top-performing portfolio of communication and content management solutions.

Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a founder of 3 successful start-ups, and led a turnaround generating 2 IPOs.

Robert graduated from Antioch University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. He is the author of Collective Knowledge (Microsoft Press, 2002) a business and technical book on communication and content management systems, in its 3rd printing, translated in multiple languages.

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