| Website | MargoDrakos.com |
| @MargoDrakos | |
| Birthplace | Columbus, Ohio |
A cellist turned technology entrepreneur, Margo Drakos is a Partner in The SwitchCase Group, a partner capital firm creating and supporting a portfolio of technology ventures. Ms. Drakos has a passion for cultivating scalable businesses that enable communities to flourish through the power of technology. Ms. Drakos focuses on business development, strategy and marketing for companies in the SwitchCase portfolio including InstantEncore.com, a performing arts digital asset management and mobile application platform, of which she is Co-Founder. Ms. Drakos also serves as a strategy advisor to several for-profit and non-profit organizations. In 2011, she founded of a non-profit social enterprise, AppBridge, to bring education, economic and employment opportunity to those at the Base of the Pyramid through free mobile applications. The AppBridge is an initiative of the World Economic Forum and a commitment of the Clinton Global Initiative. In 2010, her leadership abilities were recognized by the World Economic Forum when she was appointed as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. She is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Prior to business, Ms. Drakos performed as a solo cellist and chamber musician throughout Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States. The former cellist of the American String Quartet, Ms. Drakos also held posts as the Associate Principal Cellist of the Pittsburgh Symphony and Principal Cellist of the San Diego and Seattle Symphonies. She has served as Artist-in-Residence and faculty member at Manhattan School of Music and Aspen Music Festival, produced for Longhorn Records and recorded for Arabesque Records and Sony Classical.
At fifteen, Ms. Drakos entered music conservatory as a double major in cello and composition. She is a graduate of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with David Soyer. She received a Masters Degree from Columbia University in Human Rights (2008). Ms. Publications have appeared in The International Affairs Review, The Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Cornell International Law Journal, and The United Kingdom Parliament’s House of Lords and House of Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights Report. Ms. Drakos is a frequent guest speaker at Universities and Conferences on digital media strategies, and the Age of Participation.
