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David Marcus

David is a serial entrepreneur who was the first to break Switzerland’s telecommunications monopoly in 1996 by founding GTN Telecom. As its CEO, David grew the company to become one of the third largest telecommunications operator in Switzerland competing with large industrial consortiums (British Telecom, TDC, Swiss utility companies, Swiss railroads). GTN was backed by Venture Capital firm 3i. David sold the company in 2000 to World Access (NASDAQ:WAXS -now delisted), then part of the Worldcom group.

In 2000 David started Echovox with the vision to transform mobile into a ubiquitous personal interactive media platform. To achieve this vision, the company signed agreements with over 60 mobile carriers throughout Europe and the US to use their infrastructure to deliver and bill mobile content.

In 2003, he founded VOX telecom, a “2.0” telecommunication carrier offering VoIP and routing services to the world’s largest telecom groups such as Verizon, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Deutsche Telekom, KPN, Belgacom and more.

In October 2006, David launched together with leading French media group M6, echo6, a joint venture with Echovox that has become one of the leading mobile entertainment companies in France.

More recently, David moved to the Silicon Valley to focus his time and attention with Echovox on the launch of a new mobile payments platform, Zong.

David is a regular speaker at events such as the Virtual Goods Summit, CTIA Wireless, Red Herring Venture Market, World Mobile Congress (formerly 3GSM), First Tuesdays and World Economic Forum-SKU.

Milestones

  • Added position as Managing Director at TwitterFone.
    Posted 11/27/08 at 9:35pm
  • Added position as Co-Founder at TwitterFone.
    Posted 5/7/08 at 12:57pm
  • Added position as Founder and CEO at GTN Telecom.
    Posted 5/7/08 at 12:35pm
  • Added position as Founder and Chairman at Vox Telecom.
    Posted 5/7/08 at 12:35pm
  • Added position as Founder and CEO at Zong.
    Posted 4/8/08 at 5:19pm

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