Marc has been involved in the telecommunications industry for more than 36 years. He has worked as a leading reporter and market analyst, magazine publisher and book author, conference and trade show producer, and marketing executive. Marc currently serves as a leading industry consultant, and industry association President and Executive Director.In mid 2003, Marc launched Robins Consulting Group (RCG), a IP communications industry consultancy offering an array of marketing, business development and other services (www.robinsconsult.com). Marc is also a regular contributor to a number of mainstream and business publications, and is a frequent commentator on the subject of VoIP and IP Communications.Marc also serves as the President and Managing Director of the SIP Forum (www.sipforum.org), a leading IP communications industry association that engages in numerous activities that advance and promote SIP technology.From 1998 to mid-2003, Marc served as Vice President of Publications and Trade Shows, Associate Group Publisher and Group Editorial Director at TMC.Prior to joining TMC, Marc served as VP of Marketing at Linkon Corporation – a telephony software and communications board vendor. In 1988, Marc founded Robins Press, a leading publishing, market intelligence and consulting firm. Areas of focus included voice and fax processing, call center automation, computer telephony integration, and speech synthesis and recognition. In the early 1980s, Marc worked with Harry Newton, the original publisher of Computer Telephony, Teleconnect and Call Center magazines and producer of the Computer Telephony trade show, as an associate editor and author.Specialties: market intelligencebusiness developmenton and offline branding and identitymatchmaking (partnerings/fundings/acquisitions)high-value strategic content and messagingnew company/product/service launch campaignspublic relations support