Talmon Marco
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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 voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones with over 400 million users.
Biography
Born in Israel, Marco served as Chief Information Officer 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] He created and spread free applications that could potentially monitor users communication and their activities, such as iMesh[5] and Bandoo.[6] In 1997 he co-founded Expand Networks. Marco served as the President of Expand Networks until 2004. In 1998, Marco co-founded iMesh, where he was President until 2010. In 2010 he co-founded Viber with Igor Megzinik, a friend from the Israel Defense Forces,[7] and today he serves as its CEO.[3][8]
External links
- An interview with Marco
- Viber founder: 'People should be concerned about privacy' on The Guardian
- StartTWS Panel: How to build a consumer startup in Israel? on YouTube
- Viber 4.1 launched in the Philippines Talmon Marco launches Viber 4.1 in Manila
References
- ^ "Talmon Marco - @duras". Twitter. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ "Talmon Marco". crunchbas. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ a b "Executive Profile - Talmon Marco". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ Robin Wauters. "200,000,000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco". The Next Web. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ iMesh
- ^ Viber is a spy ?
- ^ The Skype Killers of Belarus By Brett Forrest August 23, 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek, Technology
- ^ "Profile of Talmon Marco". Retrieved 27 October 2013.