Trekking the “W” in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile, 2009
An entrepreneur, digital media strategist and journalist raised in Purchase, New York, Marc is a second year MBA student concentrating in both Entrepreneurship and Customer and Product Management at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
At UNC, he is chair of the Admissions Advisory Board and VP of the Carolina Entrepreneurial Fellows. Marc is a blogger on the Kenan-Flagler Blog. His team also placed second and was named Entrepreneur’s Choice at last year’s Venture Capital Investment Competition.
Marc served as the 2009 Young Entrepreneur in Residence (YEiR) at NC IDEA, a venture capital firm in the RTP. As part of the year-long internship, he was actively involved in the grants program — analyzing business plans, conducting due diligence, performing market analysis — while also consulting two recent recipients, Green Cooling Group and StatSheet.
Prior to moving to Chapel Hill, Marc spent two years in business development and content strategy at D.C.-based Internet start-up RevolutionHealth.com, during which time the company grew from 20 employees to over 250. Founded by Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, Revolution Health was acquired in 2008 by Waterfront Media in a deal valued at $300 million.
Marc graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor of arts in history. In 2005, Untangling the Ivy League, the 565-page college admissions guidebook that he developed, researched and wrote was published by College Prowler. It sold nearly 6,000 copies nationwide.
The book’s success enabled Marc to work as a freelance reporter at some of the nation’s most read publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, People and Playboy.
An avid traveler, he completed a 14-country trip around the world in 80 days in 2008. In 2009, he visited Eastern Europe, trekked in Patagonia, overlanded through Southern Africa, traversed the North and South Islands of New Zealand and drove through Western Europe.
This year kicked off with a mid-winter visit to Russia. And then, in the spring, Marc embarked on a two-week trek to Everest Base Camp in Nepal.
While at Cornell, Marc was a dean’s list student and managing editor of the Cornell Daily Sun, the nation’s second oldest independent college newspaper. He also held leadership positions in Mortar Board, the Arts & Sciences Ambassadors and Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and was honored at graduation as the recipient of a Baccalaureate Service Award, given to seniors who demonstrated exemplary intellectual integrity, excellence in scholarship & active citizenship.
Marc was a founding board member and treasurer of the Cornell Star & Crescent Foundation, a position he still maintains. In his spare couple of minutes, he enjoys jogging, photography, and planning his life’s next adventure.
