Rob Durst -
Managing Partner
Rob Durst has over twenty years experience identifying
new business opportunities, inventing and developing the
technologies and products required to monetize them, and
building and managing the organizations necessary to
effect their successful commercialization. During his
career as a “serial intrapreneur” at range of public
companies including Bell Laboratories, IBM, Pitney Bowes,
Neomedia Technologies, and Digimarc, as well as
subsequently as a private consultant, his employers and
clients have repeatedly drawn upon his eclectic knowledge
of technology, intellectual property and strategic
business development to help them develop and protect
products and IP assets that have proven key to the
expansion and defense of their businesses.
In his capacity as both a senior line executive and
consultant Rob has been responsible for all aspects of
product and business development; from concept creation
and development in R&D, through post launch support
in business operations. Rob also has extensive experience
with public company representation, the process of
raising capital, and working with both internal and
outside counsel to develop contracts, licensing
agreements and intellectual property assets as well as
with litigation related issues.
Rob is an honors graduate of Allegheny College and also
holds a Masters degree from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
US Patents and Published Patent
Applications
Marie'Anne
Colavito Durst - Managing Partner
Marie'Anne Colavito Durst has over 20 years experience in
creating and implementing highly effective
business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing
and communications solutions for both US clients and
international clients operating in the US market.
Her early work includes both television and print
production on the "I Love New York" and "New York Loves
You" campaigns, photographic process and print production
for book trade publishers at a subsidiary of Olgivy &
Mather in New York, and full responsibility for
marketing, advertising and product management for both
French and German technical companies establishing
operations in the United States.
Since 1991 she has operated as an independent consultant
where she has provided both new and established companies
with a broad range of marcoms solutions including the
development of corporate identity, advertising and
marketing programs, trade show production and management
and the production of award winning technical videos.
Marie'Anne is a graduate of the State University of New
York at Albany where she majored in both art and business
with a focus on advertising.