Marc Gorlin
Role: Associate
Site: CDL-Atlanta
Stream: FinTech
Marc Gorlin is the founder and CEO of logistics management and crowdsourced delivery platform Roadie, which he launched in 2014. Roadie offers businesses fast, flexible, and asset-light logistics solutions for last-mile delivery. The Atlanta-based company works with consumers and businesses across almost every industry to enable a faster, cheaper and more scalable solution for same-day and urgent delivery. Roadie became a wholly-owned subsidiary of UPS in 2021.
Before launching Roadie, Marc co-founded and served as chairman of Kabbage Inc., which provides working capital to small and medium-sized businesses. It was acquired by American Express in 2020.
Prior to that, Marc co-founded VerticalOne Corporation, a content personalization service that was sold to S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: ACIW) for $166M. In 1996, he was a co-founder and original board member of Pretty Good Privacy (“PGP”), a company formed to commercialize one of the most prevalent security standards on the internet, popularized in the book “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Marc helped launch PGP and oversaw its financing, growth and eventual sale to Network Associates in December 1997.
Marc is a UGA graduate and an active speaker on serial entrepreneurship, innovation and venture funding. In 2021, he received the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® National Award. He was also the 2022 recipient of the John Imlay Leadership Award.