1. Marc Kramer is an American serial entrepreneur, business book author and journalist.
16 Facts About Marc Kramer
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Marc Kramer founded the country's first formally organized investor angel network, the Pennsylvania Private Investors Group, now called the Private Investors Forum, and the country's first cyber bank insurance product for small businesses, Commercial Deposit Insurance.
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Marc Kramer was born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, to Robert Kramer, a small business owner, and Shelly Kramer, a fine China sales representative for Macy's Department Store.
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Marc Kramer attended and graduated from West Virginia University Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism in 1982 and obtained a Master's in Management in 1991 from The Pennsylvania State University.
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Marc Kramer started his career as sports writer for the Village News and the Coatesville Record.
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Marc Kramer left sports writing in 1983 and joined Berkheimer Associates to become a tax administrator.
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Marc Kramer left the Downingtown Marketing place in 1987 to become the first executive director of the Penn State Technology Development Center in Great Valley, Pa, which he grew from one company to 53 and lead the nation in minority startup companies.
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In 1990, Marc Kramer left the Penn State Technology to start the Eastern Technology Council, which was the second largest technology council in the United States.
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Marc Kramer started Marc Kramer Communications, a marketing and new venture development consultancy in 1997.
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Marc Kramer is the executive director of the Private Investors Forum and runs the Angel Venture Fair, which draws entrepreneurs from all over the world to present their business plans to angel investors.
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Marc Kramer is the executive director of the Angel Venture Fair, which brings together entrepreneurs and investors from around the world, and formerly Executive-in-Residence at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pa.
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Marc Kramer has taught marketing, entrepreneurship, marketing, management and family business at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, Temple University Fox School of Business, Drexel University LeBow School of Business, University of Louisville in Panama City, Panama, Universidad de Pacifico in Lima, Peru, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, Rutgers University Rohrer College of Business at Rowan University and VinUniversity in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Currently, Marc Kramer is the Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Co-Director of the Master's in Business Administration program at VinUniversity in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Marc Kramer was married to Jacqueline Kadoch, a Spanish interpreter for social service organizations, from 1984 to 2013.
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Marc Kramer has two daughters, Ariel Kramer, president of Klover Communications, and Sydney Kramer, author of Cookie Dalmatian Mysteries.
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Marc Kramer has two sisters, Dr Randi Braman, a family doctor in Owings Mills, Maryland, and Leslie Marc Kramer, a Human Resources leader.