Rob Marano

President & CEO

Greater New York City Area

Current
Past
  • Co-Chairman Strong Authentication Experts Group at Liberty Alliance
  • Founder, CTO at Falkin Systems LLC
  • Director, Emerging Software Technologies, Global Technology Centre at PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Education
  • The University of Pennsylvania
  • The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Archbishop Molloy High School

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Rob Marano’s Summary

Rob Marano currently leads all aspects of InDorse Technologies, Inc, a document security assurance software vendor out of New York City. Prior to that he established Falkin Systems LLC, an advanced portable strong authentication R&D company, from research and development from his team at The Cooper Union. Rob had served as Director of Emerging Software Technologies with the PwC Global Technology Centre. Rob assisted the PwC team in understanding the key technology business requirements necessary for our clients' growth opportunities. His experience in product development, marketing, and business development had assisted PwC's clients convert their business strategies into increased revenue streams and effective cost control over business processes. At PwC he covered technology strategy, software development, IT risk management, restructuring, and thought leadership in emerging area that include enterprise software, OSS/BSS, CRM, security, IT management, medical informatics, and entertainment technologies. Prior to PwC, Rob founded US division of RiverSoft before serving as head of US development, senior architect, and channels technology director. He has also served many senior business and technology positions at Micromuse, Merrill Lynch, Lockheed Martin, GE, and ConEd. Rob holds a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering. In a prior life, Rob served as a cadet in the US Air Force Academy.

Rob Marano’s Specialties:

Information security with concentration on document security, identity management, strong authentication, and access control convergence. Product/service business proposition development and marketing, product/service channels development, IT and security risk management, technology architecture, software development cycle, Competitive analysis, component frameworks (J2EE, .NET)

Rob Marano’s Experience

  • Adjunct Professor for MBA Program

    NYU Polytechnic Institute

    (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

    September 2008 — Present (11 months)

    Lecturing on global innovation management for the MBA/ masters of technology management program at the University.

  • President and CEO

    InDorse Technologies, Inc.

    (Computer & Network Security industry)

    October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

    Chief executive, president and Board Member; Leading all aspects of the company from generating and executing strategic direction, daily operations, technology vision, and investor relations. Worked first as evaluator and due diligence expert for investors, then stepped in to lead the company to execute strategy and commercialize the business.

  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

    The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

    (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    January 1996 — Present (13 years 7 months)

    Develop examples of and teach principles of engineering design and computer science-based classes: "Data Structures in C," an undergraduate elective that concentrates on the use of data structures in engineering and business software; "Computer Architecture," a required undergraduate course that introduces the engineering student to the fundamental design of computers from logic structures to CPUs and data buses; "Advanced Programming Techniques," a graduate elective which introduces the computer engineering student to principles of developing computer software systems for mission critical applications, such as financial services, military, healthcare, entertainment, media, and communications. Developed a continuing-education course specializing on the system administration and design of Oracle and other database management systems.

  • Co-Chairman Strong Authentication Experts Group

    Liberty Alliance

    (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Real Estate industry)

    2005 — 2008 (3 years)

  • Founder, CTO

    Falkin Systems LLC

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

    July 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 4 months)

    Falkin Systems develops next generation access control and authentication systems. The Falkin "Universal Authentication Platform" is the world’s first interoperable, tunable N-factor, portable authentication system, converging physical and data access controls into one portable card with a self-contained biometrics reader. By relying on portable, secure, real-time communications and biometric authentication to stop identity fraud of any kind, either IT- or credit-related, Falkin will become the de-facto standard for proving identity in commercial and financial systems.

  • Director, Emerging Software Technologies, Global Technology Centre

    PricewaterhouseCoopers

    (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

    January 2002 — June 2005 (3 years 6 months)

    Founding member of a senior executive team (MPE), whose charter continues to provide insights, experience, benchmarking, strategic and market directions for global clients. Applying practical experience to business and tech issues to assist our clients to make informed decisions. Some recent work includes: CRM market, portfolio analysis & M&A recommendations for one of Europe’s largest VC; globally leading M&A thought leadership for the CRM, OSS & security industries; review/present the PwC Tech and InfoSec Forecasts to leading journalists, investors, and corporations around the globe; strategy workshops for leading CRM, OSS, web services, and security vendors; due diligences for private equity houses, startups and enterprises; tech thought leadership to leading radionews and publications, e.g., FT, Computer Weekly, Computer Headline, Chartered Accountant, & Digital Infrastructure Tech, on hot issues such as grid, software licensing, security, CRM, and infrastructure management.

  • Director, Channel Technology

    RiverSoft plc

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; MUSE; Computer Software industry)

    June 2001 — January 2002 (8 months)

    Supported the Company's strategic commercial goal of 80-20 ratio between indirect and direct sales through the orchestration of effective tactics, such as, detailed product presentations, third-party integrations, technical sales and deployment support, and education to our Partners. Led a team of 5 technical and 1 administrative members with a budget of US $1 million. Brought aboard and trained, within two months, 5 first-tier partners and resellers, leading to a US $1 million revenue for FY2001. Continued contributions to product development that concentrated on core requirements gleaned from customers and partners and on assessment of methodologies, designs, and delivery dates.

  • Head of US Development and Sr. Product Architect

    RiverSoft plc

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; MUSE; Computer Software industry)

    February 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 5 months)

    One of five in charge of technical & product direction under the CTO. Promoted to Head of US Dev in July 2000 from Sr. Product Architect. Management over a budget of US $1.5M with a staff of 15 in 2 countries. Managed opening & direction of US-based dev center for OEMs Cisco,HP,Intel. Within 10 weeks, the dev infrastructure, admin, & processes had been put into place with a staff of 7, coming in under budget by 30%. Led tech & mgmt direction of one of three product groups. These responsibilities included design, dev, & deployment of robust & reliable dev environment, porting library, proof-of-concept systems infrastructure extensions, & build & productisation tools for CD layout & software installation. The porting library design had successfully reduced product support for a new OS from 6 months to 4 weeks for coding & 3 months to 6 weeks for testing. Served as a major contributor to the design concepts of the V3 product, while assisting Sales in large-scale deals.

  • Interim US Director (First US Employee)

    RiverSoft plc

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; MUSE; Computer Software industry)

    October 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 4 months)

    Led opening of US-based sales and administrative offices with a budget of US $500k with a staff of 4. Established the processes and systems for the support organization within the US and linked it to the UK. Worked with Company’s angel investment firm, Meyer Duffy Ventures, to raise exposure of the Company and its products in the infrastructure and financial analyst communities. Worked with VP Global Sales on preliminary sales calls with large telecoms (AT&T, Verizon, and US West), banks (Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney, and Chase Manhattan), ISPs (AOL, UUNET, and Mindspring), and equipment manufacturers (Nortel, Cisco, and Lucent). Assisted Chairman and CEO to hire VP US Sales to transfer management of US directorship. While Director, continued to assist investment firm in analyst meetings and assist their technical validation of potentially new investments along side the RiverSoft portfolio.

  • Co-Founder US Development, Senior Software Architect

    Micromuse

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; MUSE; Computer Software industry)

    March 1997 — September 1998 (1 year 7 months)

    Co-founded US-based applications development group with Tim Tokarsky, chartered with expanding the Company’s systems and network management product line. Responsibilities included client/server architecture design and development of Java-based data visualization/service level management tool and process automation software for the Company’s core product, Netcool/OMNIbus. Interfaced heavily on a daily basis with Senior Management and customers for requirements, Testing for quality, Operations for CD production, and Documentation for manuals. In addition to development responsibilities, performed pre-and post-sales support roles, integrating customer enhancements into the infrastructure.

  • Associate, Distributed Systems Management

    Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MER; Financial Services industry)

    August 1995 — February 1997 (1 year 7 months)

    Led the development and deployment of a reliable, global systems monitoring service. Responsibilities included team leadership, architecture design, product evaluation, core code development, shrink-wrapping custom tools and API for third-party use, and managing global rollout of core tools. The basic design leverages technologies such as the Web, SNMP, and Java to deliver accurate fault detection and timely documentation to the central Operations Center: fault detection has been centralized, while tools for fault management have been distributed to the respective departments. This initiative consolidated all monitoring of networks, systems, and applications to strategic, peer Data Centers, located throughout the world. (Note bene: We took LifeLine and the other systems management products over to found Micromuse's US Application Center in NYC.)

  • General Electric Edison Engineering Program / Lockheed Leadership Development Program (ELDP) Grad

    Lockheed Martin

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

    June 1993 — August 1995 (2 years 3 months)

    A GE-based 2-year rotational program, referred to as the Edison Engineering Program or Leadership Development Program (ELDP), focused on technical management training. Each rotation resulted in development of leadership and team skills while in pursuit of a particular business solution. The list of rotations completed are detailed above in order of completion.

  • Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer

    Lockheed Martin Advanced Tech Labs

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

    November 1994 — August 1995 (10 months)

    Final rotation co-led architecture and C++ development of distributed information systems that fuse the Web with CORBA object transport mechanisms over UNIX-based TCP/IP networks. Extending custom network API to include remote, low-level socket-based messaging over TCP/IP networks, e.g., Sun, SGI, and Linux PCs. Developed baseline requirements for a distributed battle-field management system for a US Army proposal. As part of a larger project, designed a C program that extracts the system resources of UNIX workstation nodes in an adaptive fault-tolerant distributed computer system.

  • Member of Technical Staff

    GE Astrospace

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GE; Defense & Space industry)

    June 1993 — October 1994 (1 year 5 months)

    On First Rotation, following through full product life cycle, planned the functional specifications then developed the software in C and the hardware for a PC-based signal processing unit and supporting ISA card for use in a satellite test station. This system reduced test time by 66%. Developed functional requirements for virtual instruments which control the test station from a Sun workstation. On Second Rotation, designed microwave devices for use in satellite communication systems. Designed special test equipment for use in microwave device characterization tests that decreased cycle time by 80%. Dramatically reduced thermal sensory system design time by implementing design optimization algorithms in C.

Rob Marano’s Education

  • The University of Pennsylvania

    MSE , Electrical Engineering , September 1994 — May 1995

    Completed masters degree in tandem with the General Electric Edison Engineering Program

  • The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

    BSEE , Electrical and Computer Engineering , September 1990 — May 1993

    Activities and Societies:
    IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    Physics September 1989 — June 1990

    Intramural Ice Hockey

    Activities and Societies:
    Zeta Beta Tau

  • Archbishop Molloy High School

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Rob Marano’s Interests:

new technology, gadgets, infosec, sailing, marksmanship, "dan bang", piano, guitar, sumi-e

Rob Marano’s Groups:

Liberty Alliance (co-chair of Strong Authentication Expert Group), CSI, TENG (NY chapter), Institute of Directors (London chapter), IEEE, Columbus Citizens Foundation, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Zeta Beta Tau

  •    Big Four Firms Alumni & Professionals Global Network (Big4.com)
  •    PricewaterhouseCoopers Alumni
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) employees and alumni
  •    Rensselaer Alumni Association (RPI)
  •    Merrill Lynch Alumni
  •    CISO: Meaningful Metrics
  •    The Enterprise Architecture Network
  •    Zeta Beta Tau
  •    The Cooper Union Alumni Association
  •    Sharepoint Experts
  •    Micromuse Alumni
  •    Friends of the European Union
  •    Dubai Business Network
  •    General Electric Alumni
  •    CEO Crossing
  •    SharePoint Users Group
  •    Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  •    Merrill Lynch
  •    The Order of the Engineer
  •    LOCKHEED MARTIN CONNECTIONS
  •    Linked CEO
  •    IT for SMB
  •    FACE - French American Conference of Entrepreneurs
  •    Riversoft
  •    Penn Engineering Alumni
  •    Bejant - Powering the Professional Lifecycle
  •    Running IT as a Business
  •    Open Cloud Manifesto
  •    Cloud Security Alliance
  •    Hedge Fund & Private Equity Jobs & Careers - www.TheAlternativeAvenue.com
  •    Kantara Initiative
  •    Cooper Alumni Job Market

Rob Marano’s Honors:

Merrill Lynch CIO Special Achievement Award (1995)
General Electric Edison Engineering and Technical Management Course (1995)
Lockheed Martin Executive Leadership Development Program (1995)
Columbus Citizens Foundation University Scholarship (1989)
Full scholarship to The Cooper Union (1989-1993)
Appointment to the US Air Force Academy (1989)

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