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Ken Marlin
Ken Marlin is an American investment banker, international strategist, and author of The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street: 11 Key Principles from Battlefield to Boardroom, available from St. Martin's Press in August 2016. He is the founder and managing partner of Marlin & Associates, an award-winning boutique investment bank and strategy advisor. He is a member of the “Market Data Hall of Fame” and, in 2011, Institutional Investor ("II"), the international publisher, named Ken as one of II’s “Tech 50”, which honored the 50 most “disruptive” figures in the financial technology sector. In 2014, Institutional Investor again, named Marlin to their "Tech 50" as one of the 50 most influential people in the financial technology industry. Again, he was the only investment banker on the list. In 2015 Institutional Investor named Marlin as one of the 35 most influential people in Fintech finance. Marlin also is a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Phoenix House Foundation; a Trustee and Board Member of the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club; a member of the Business Administration Board of Advisors of the University of the People; an active supporter of the Wall Street Warriors Foundation, The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation; the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School; and Outward Bound Peacekeeping. He has been quoted frequently in the media.
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Personal Life and Education
Marlin holds BA from the University of California (Irvine), an MBA from UCLA, and a post-MBA Advanced Professional Certificate in Corporate Strategy from New York University. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Jacqueline Barnathan, an Emmy-award winning senior producer for CBS News, and their daughter.
Early career
From 1970-1981, Marlin served in the United States Marine Corps, as a Captain and Infantry Company commander. From 1981- 1991, Marlin was a senior executive with The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, where he led global strategy as Senior Vice President. (At that time, Dun & Bradstreet was a conglomerate which owned Moody’s Investors Service, Interactive Data Corporation, Datastream International, Reuben H. Donnelley, IMS Health, ACNielsen, Nielsen Media Research, D&B Software, D&B Plan Services, D&B Credit Services and a majority stake in Gartner Group). At Dun & Bradstreet, Marlin led transactions involving US and non-US firms, including transactions in 13 counties. During Apartheid, Marlin led D&B’s divestiture of three companies that D&B controlled in South Africa. He also led D&B’s efforts to establish a direct presence in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong; and to expand presence in Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, Marlin led D&B’s efforts to establish business information collection infrastructure in a number of Soviet Bloc countries. Later he assumed a role as a Group Executive.
In 1991, Marlin became President and CEO of Telekurs (NA), a global financial information technology firm owned by a consortium of Swiss banks. In 1995, Marlin and others acquired a large portion of Telekurs (NA) and formed Telesphere Corporation, where Marlin was President and CEO. In 1997, Telesphere was sold to Bridge Information Systems (now part of Thomson Reuters), where Marlin became Executive Vice President. In 1999, Marlin left Bridge to join the media merchant bank and private equity fund Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Marlin is a former board member of the American Red Cross of Greater New York and the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School. Currently, He also works to support the Wall Street Warfighters Foundation as well as the B'nai Jeshurun/SPSA Homeless shelter.