Marc Weiser
Managing Director, RPM Ventures
Marc Weiser is a founder and Managing Director of RPM Ventures. At RPM, he is involved with the boards of BountyJobs, OpenLane, RiverGlass, TetraVitae, QuantumLearning Technologies, and Xtime. He was previously involved with the boards of Entegrity Solutions, R4 Global Services, Applimation, and QuantumShift.
Mr. Weiser has significant entrepreneurial experience in the technology industry as a founder of Web-based telecommunications management and services firm QuantumShift, a venture backed company that raised more than $140 million. At QuantumShift, he was the executive in charge of early technology and e-commerce systems development. In addition, he was one of the first employees at MessageMedia, where he was a member of the road show team for its Initial Public Offering. While at MessageMedia, he pioneered some of the original methods for e-commerce transactions and assisted in launching the first Internet merchants. He has also spent time in business development for Dell Computer Corporation and was an associate at Arbor Partners, an early stage e-commerce venture capital fund based in Ann Arbor.
Mr. Weiser serves on the board of McKinley Associates, a $1.5 billion real estate company and is an active member on the board of The Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation. He is an advisor to the Wolverine Venture Fund, a student led venture fund at the University of Michigan Business School and is on the board of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. He is an investor and advisor to a number of non-technology companies and was named to Crain's Detroit Business 2006 "40 Under 40" list.
Weiser graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering and earned his Master's degree in Business Administration with highest distinction from the University of Michigan. He lives in Saline, Michigan, with his wife, and 2 children.
Tony Grover
Managing Director, RPM Ventures
Tony Grover, is a Managing Director of RPM Ventures and has a strong operating background with nearly 12 years of private equity, manufacturing, and technical knowledge with experience spanning a wide array of industries and corporate settings. At RPM, Grover is involved with the boards of FLX Micro, Performix Nextumi, VizionWare, and Mobius Microsystems.
He previously was Vice President and Partner at White Pines Ventures, a $100 million venture capital firm. In this capacity, Grover was responsible for investments in telecommunications, enterprise software, Internet and supply chain sectors.
Prior to joining White Pines Ventures, Grover was co-founder of Promotum, an Internet-based promotions, marketing, and services company that obtained seed capital from Pandesic, a joint venture between Intel Corporation and SAP. He was responsible for developing corporate strategy and day-to-day operations and for managing technical development.
Grover received finance, engineering and manufacturing experience serving as a business and cost analyst with Intel Corporation and as a manufacturing engineer for Cummins Engine Company.
Grover also serves on the advisory boards of the University of Michigan Frankel Commercialization Fund, a pre-seed investment fund established to identify and accelerate the commercialization of ideas generated within the University of Michigan community, and the Michigan Universities Commercialization Initiative (MUCI) Challenge Fund, a pre-seed fund that provides awards to commercialization projects at Michigan’s research institutions as part of a program designed to enhance technology transfer.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science in industrial engineering from Purdue University, and graduated from the Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Business with a Masters in Business Administration. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and two sons.
