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Robert Marcus Chief Executive Officer
Robert is a visionary leader with a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation in both new ventures and large established firms. He joined Artilium in early 2007 after nearly a decade at Microsoft where he served most recently as a director on the company’s mergers and acquisitions team.
Robert led convergence strategy at Microsoft. He was the architect behind Microsoft’s first moves in carrier-based unified communications revealed by Steve Ballmer at SUPERCOMM ‘99, and he was onstage with Bill Gates in Geneva in 2003 at the quadrennial International Telecommunications Union meeting when Bill further detailed the company’s convergence strategy. He served as a ‘Solution CEO’ in Microsoft’s $16 billion Information Worker division responsible for a portfolio of converged communication and collaboration solutions that generated in excess of $100 million. His business and technical book on communication and collaboration, Collective Knowledge, is in its 3rd printing with more than 30,000 copies sold in a number of languages. He was also a director on the business management team of Microsoft’s worldwide partner group (responsible for 97% of company revenue) and led a 500+ strong specialist sales team in the same division.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Robert headed several emerging technology ventures. As CEO of Seattle-based ConnectSoft, he completed a growth based turnaround inside of a year, successfully leading the struggling company to a $50 million NASDAQ IPO filing with the first Windows-based convergence platform for carriers. He was a co-founder and chief operating officer of Paris-based PICIS, now a healthcare information systems leader and a key Microsoft partner in the sector. He was president of Integrated Medical Technologies, an emergency medical systems company he founded. And he built the European division of American Dental Laser to $15 million in annual sales from a zero base in less than three years, making possible the company’s $89 million NASDAQ IPO based primarily on European sales.
Robert has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Antioch University.