Summary
Marsh Marshall is an American economist, venture capital and hedge fund manager, and television producer. He is the author of "Organizations and Growth in Rural China",[1] academic and newspaper articles on China's economy[2][3][4] and on venture capital investing.[5] He is currently Chief Operating Officer at the quantitative hedge fund, Periwinkle Trading LLC, and is writing a book on investment, economic growth and corporate governance.
Marsh Marshall | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Tufts University, Stanford University, Oxford University |
| Occupation(s) | Economist, Venture Capitalist and Financial Engineering Executive |
Early life edit
Marshall was born in 1953 and raised in Washington DC, where he graduated from Georgetown Preparatory School in 1971. In 1975, he earned a bachelor's degree in history from Tufts University (magna cum laude); a 1977 master's degree in development economics from Stanford University, and a 1983 doctorate degree in economics from Oxford University, where he was a Tutor in Economics at Magdalen College. His doctoral thesis focused on the relationship between institutions and economic growth.[6] In July 1979, Marshall was a member of a small delegation of Oxford and Cambridge economists invited by the Chinese Academy of Social Science to discuss economic reforms with China's leader, Deng Xiaoping.[7] In a 1979 article, Marshall presented evidence that the apparent success of Mao Zedong's agricultural model, Dazhai, was a fraud.[8] In 1981, China's post-Mao leadership acknowledged the fraud in Beijing Review.[9]
Business career edit
In 1993-1995 Marshall led a Silicon Valley-based team of designers and engineers for Bell Atlantic in the development of user interfaces and electronic program guides for video-on-demand service, for which Marshall was issued a US patent.[10] In 1996, Marshall was subsequently appointed Vice President at Tele-TV, a partnership of Bell Atlantic, NYNEX and Pacific Bell.[11] In 1998, Marshall was IXI Corporation's Chief Operating Officer, and helped establish a data network of $10 trillion in directly measured financial assets from large mutual funds, banks, and insurance companies; after the 2009 sale of the company to Equifax (NYSE: EFX), Marshall became President of the IXI Digital division of Equifax.[12][13][14] In 2000, Marshall became a General Partner at a $90 million, Rothschild-sponsored venture capital firm, ECentury Capital, where he made equity and debt investments in software, semiconductor, and digital media companies and served on eight boards.[15][16] Marshall is currently Chief Operating Officer at the statistical arbitrage, systematic hedge fund Periwinkle Trading LLC, founded by Scott Smallwood, former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley's quantitative hedge fund, Process Driven Trading.[17] In 2011, Marshall was appointed Chairman of the Board of Bluecava, a California software and digital device data company.[18] He was a board director of Linkable Networks and a senior adviser at I2 Capital[19][20]
Film and television career edit
Marshall's television career was centered at the British Broadcasting Corporation in London, where he was trained in news and current affairs production. Marshall was with the British Broadcasting Corporation for five years and produced and directed more than a dozen major programs and films. His filmography includes Life After Debt for BBC Panorama; Moneylenders for PBS Frontline; On Course for War (for Panorama); Czech Mate (with BBC Foreign Affairs Editor John Simpson); Review of the Year 1989 with Jonathan Dimbleby, a 90-minute Christmas season film for BBC1,[21][22][23][24][25] In 1993, he directed a BBC drama, War with America, a special effects film set in the future, with a cast of British actors,.[26][27]
Filmography edit
- "War with America" 1993 (Director)
- "Sleepwalking to War?" 1990 (Producer)
- "Czech-mate: Inside the Revolution" 1990, (Producer)
- "Conference Day Labor 89" 1989 (Producer)
- "Conference Day Sdp" 89" 1989 (Producer)
- "Conference Day Conservatives 89" 1989 (Producer)
- "Walking Tall" 1988 (Associate Producer)
- "Kilroy" 1988 (Producer)
- "On Course for War" 1984 (Associate Producer)
- "Life after Debt" 1983 (Producer)
References edit
- ^ Marshall, M. (1985) Organizations and Economic Growth in Rural China. London: Macmillan Press.
- ^ "Marshall, M. (1979) 'Red and Expert at Tachai: A Sources of Growth Analysis'". World Development. Vol. 7. pp. 423–432.
- ^ "The Rains Came – and Then the Vietnamese". Washington Post. January 13, 1979.
- ^ "Trends in Asian Trade, Industry and Finance". The Wall Street Journal (Asia). May 25, 1977.
- ^ Marshall, M. (2005) 'Climbing Mount Everest'. Boston: Aspatore Press. pp. 15–23.
- ^ Marshall, M. 'Institutional Transformation and Economic Growth in Rural China' (D. Phil Thesis, Oxford University ed.). 1982.
- ^ "MAGDALEN & ASIA RHODES 110TH ANNIVERSARY" (PDF). Floreat. No. 12. 2013.
- ^ "Marshall, M. (1979) 'Red and Expert at Tachai: A Sources of Growth Analysis'". World Development. Vol. 7. pp. 423–432.
- ^ Beijing Review. No. 16. April 20, 1981. p. 25.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "United States, US Patent Office, patent # 392,264. Set of Icons for the Display Screen for a Video Monitor". March 17, 1998.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "TELE-TV MEDIA SETS CREATIVE PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGICAL INTEGRATION PERSONNEL". February 27, 1996.
- ^ "Data Industry Reaction: What Is The Biggest Challenge With The Demand-Side Platform Model?". 2011-07-11.
- ^ "comScore Announces Collaboration with IXI, An Equifax Company, to Incorporate Consumer Financial Segmentation Data into AdEffx™ and Audience Advantage™ Product Suites". comScore. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ "Equifax Will Acquire IXI for $124M". October 21, 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ "Meet The Team". Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ "Marsh S. Marshall Jr., Ph.D." Bloomberg. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ "Periwinkle Trading, LLC". Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ^ "BlueCava Gets $9.5M From Mark Cuban, S3, Tim Headington". 2011-10-25. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ "FinovateSpring 2012 / Linkable Networks". Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ "Marsh Marshall, Senior Advisor". Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ "Marsh Marshall Profile". Archived from the original on November 10, 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ Moneylenders. OCLC 14092285.
- ^ "The "General Belgrano"". Millbanksystems. 1 May 1984..
- ^ "Czech Revolution: A Secret Police Plot? : Intrigue: The BBC says leaders of the KGB and its Prague counterpart engineered the uprising ending Communist rule". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ "Marsh Marshall". Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ "Europe on the Brink". The Radio Times (3603): 74. 1993-01-21.
- ^ "War with America (1993)". Archived from the original on November 10, 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2016.