{"335051":{"#nid":"335051","#data":{"type":"news","title":"John Marshall\u2019s ISyE 2014 Distinguished Leadership Lecture Now Available for Download","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThere is no such thing as an overnight success. Like the actor who does ten years of dinner theater before making it big, most of today\u2019s leaders undergo significant challenges on the road to success. However, applying those insights can lead to significant growth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s featured speaker for ISyE\u2019s Distinguished Leadership Lecture, John Marshall, IE 1996, shared his experiences in taking AirWatch from an apartment startup to a billion dollar buyout.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarshall, Senior Vice President and General Manager of AirWatch by VMware, started AirWatch in 2003 running Cat-5 cable behind grease vats at local coffee shops for Wi-Fi HotSpots. After the iPhone emerged, he shifted the company\u2019s focus to help organizations manage mobile devices for business use. With that pivot, the company grew from 150 to 1,900 employees in 4 years with 13,000 customers in 150 countries. In 2013, Marshall secured the largest Series A funding round of any software company in recent history at $200 million in 2013 and a year later he led the company\u2019s acquisition by VMware for $1.54 billion. Ernst \u0026amp; Young named Marshall Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 for Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf you missed the lecture, you can now watch it here: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/1sPSK96\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/b.gatech.edu\/1sPSK96\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s featured speaker for ISyE\u2019s Distinguished Leadership Lecture, \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Marshall\u003C\/strong\u003E, IE 1996, shared his experiences in taking AirWatch from an apartment startup to a billion dollar buyout.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This year\u2019s featured speaker for ISyE\u2019s Distinguished Leadership Lecture, John Marshall, IE 1996, shared his experiences in taking AirWatch from an apartment startup to a billion dollar buyout."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-10-17 13:35:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:19","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"324211":{"id":"324211","type":"image","title":"John Marshall, IE 1996","body":null,"created":"1449245025","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:03:45","changed":"1475895034","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:34","alt":"John Marshall, IE 1996","file":{"fid":"200180","name":"john_marshall_high_res.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/john_marshall_high_res_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/john_marshall_high_res_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1687941,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/john_marshall_high_res_1.jpg?itok=V-Tq9puJ"}}},"media_ids":["324211"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}