Leadership

Frederic is the founder of Marsanne Link. He was previously Vice President of Business Development at Marketing Decisions, Inc., in Waltham, MA, a consulting firm specializing in tactical marketing. He has managed consulting assignments on behalf of major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, SAP and AT&T. He has also worked in advertising, real estate brokerage (specializing in large estate sales in France), had brief stunts at international organizations (Peacekeeping Department of the United Nations at its New York headquarters and in Washington, DC), traveled the world as a flight attendant with Air France. He is interested in various artistic ventures; he owns an art gallery and is evaluating funding enterprises in the theater and movie business. Frederic is a long-term investor in various enterprises, an entrepreneur and dealmaker, involved in a wide range of industries from biotech (genomics, RNAi, biosimilars, etc.) to high-tech (cloud, virtual, mobile, etc.) and other verticals. Always looking for new enterprises to invest in or projects to incubate, seed or help finance. Specialties include building new ventures (Internet, others), corporate mediation and conflict resolution, lead generation and the creation of innovative distribution models, brokering deals, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions. When time allows and his sweet tooth dictates, he turns into a pastry chef (after graduating from the Ritz-Escoffier School in Paris, France). Frederic is a graduate of the School of Management at Yale University and of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is based in Boston, MA and can be reached at fmarsann@ml-inc.com.

Doug is primarily involved with operations, project management and account management. He excels at uncovering major opportunities on behalf of some of our lead customers and serves as the key interface to several of our top customers. He joined MLI in 2008 after 25 years at Hewlett-Packard, where he assumed increasing responsibilities in sales, marketing, and business development. His focus was with HP’s enterprise computing businesses, including management software, servers/storage and services. Doug’s broad business background with one of the largest companies in the world and a technology leader constitutes a unique asset to our Company. He is an avid motorcyclist. Doug holds a degree in Business Administration from Iowa State University. He is based in Fort Collins, CO, and can be reached at dburns@ml-inc.com.