Talmon Marco

Talmon Marco
Born	1973
Residence	London, U.K.
Occupation	Entrepreneurship, start-ups

Talmon Marco is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and businessman, best known as the CEO and founder of Viber - a proprietary cross-platform instant messaging VoIP application for smartphones with over 400 million users and Juno - a ride sharing service.

Born in Israel, Marco served as CIO for the Israeli Defense Forces Central Command. 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.

In 1997 he co-founded Expand Networks and served as the company's President until 2004.

In 1998, Marco co-founded iMesh, where he was President until 2010.

In 2010 he co-founded Viber with Igor Magazinik, a friend from the Israel Defense Forces, and today he serves as its CEO. In 2014, Rakuten acquired the company for $900,000,000.

In 2016, he founded Juno, a ride-sharing app. In 2017, Gett acqired the company for $200,000,000.

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