Talmon Marco

Talmon Marco
Born 1973
Residence London, U.K.[1]
Occupation Entrepreneurship, start-ups

Talmon Marco is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and businessman, best known as the CEO and founder of Viber[2] - a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging VoIP application for smartphones with over 400 million users.

Biography

Born in Israel, Marco served as CIO for the Israeli Defense Forces Central Command.[3] He completed a degree in Computer Science and Management from Tel-Aviv University, later moving to the U.S. where he spent most of his adult life.[4] In 1997 he co-founded Expand Networks and served as the company's President until 2004. In 1998, Marco co-founded iMesh, where he was President until 2010. In 2010 he co-founded Viber with Igor Magazinik, a friend from the Israel Defense Forces,[5] and today he serves as its CEO.[3][6] In February 2016, he founded Juno, a ride-sharing app similar to Uber.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Talmon Marco - @duras". Twitter. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Talmon Marco". crunchbas. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Executive Profile - Talmon Marco". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  4. ↑ Robin Wauters. "200,000,000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco". The Next Web. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  5. ↑ The Skype Killers of Belarus By Brett Forrest August 23, 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek, Technology
  6. ↑ "Profile of Talmon Marco". Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  7. ↑ "Why ride-sharing startup Juno chose to launch in New York". Upstart Business Journal. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
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