Andre Marquis
Executive Director
Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
TEL: (510) 642-4255
FAX: (510) 643-4110
e-mail: marquis@haas.berkeley.edu
The Lester Center is attached to
The Walter A. Haas School of Business at the
University of California, Berkeley
Andre Marquis joined the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship as Executive Director in 2010. He is a serial entrepreneur with a long record of starting successful biotechnology and information technology ventures with a particular focus on winning in markets where scalability and evidence-based decision making are critical including online advertising, media and pharmaceutical development.
Prior to joining UC Berkeley, he was the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at the neuromarketing firm Innerscope Research. Mr. Marquis was also founder and CEO of Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, an early stage drug development company backed by Life Science Angels and Tech Coast Angels that creates improved small molecule drugs. He was the CMO of Log Savvy which developed the first system able to analyze the huge amount of data from diverse sources required to understand “Web 2.0” emergent social activity. Prior to Log Savvy, Andre was founder and COO of Chorus (www.choruspharma.com), a group inside Eli Lilly that radically increased the efficiency of the Pre-Clinical through Phase II drug development through outsourcing.
Andre was the CTO and Senior Vice President of Marketing at Internet Pictures Corp [NASDAQ: IPIX]. iPIX was the world's largest manager of Internet visual content with partners including Microsoft and Yahoo!. His team created the technology and infrastructure for eBay's Picture Service. He was also founder and Vice President of Marketing at Emptor (Accept.com), a Kleiner Perkins, Benchmark Capital backed online payments company that was acquired by amazon.com. Prior to Emptor, he was a member of the initial management team at CyberGold [NASDAQ: CGLD] where he directed marketing strategy and marketing programs for one of the 20 fastest growing sites on the Internet.
Mr. Marquis was also a member of Boston-based CommonAngels and a founder of Incubator, LLC, a Berkeley-based business incubator. He holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester.
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