ROBERT MARSHALL
President & CEO, WeatherBug

Bob Marshall co-founded AWS in 1993 and currently serves as the company's president and CEO. Marshall pioneered the networking of weather instrumentation and cameras using the Internet, and has built this capability into the single largest network of weather stations and Internet cameras in the world. Marshall is responsible for the business strategy and operations of the company, and has led AWS to become one of the largest private weather media companies by building a series of unique and profitable business units.

Marshall led the conception and growth of the WeatherBug desktop application, which was launched in 2000. With more than 34,000,000 downloads to date, WeatherBug has become one of the top news and information sites on the Internet (comScore Media Metrix). Marshall established WeatherBug as the leader in the rapid rise of desktop applications, and through the development of unique capabilities such as life-saving alerts and storm warnings, AWS has defined WeatherBug as a top Internet media property and the premiere Internet desktop application.

In the field of education, Marshall founded AWS on the vision to improve math and science in schools through the use of engaging, live, local weather information. Marshall leads the growth of AWS in education, and WeatherBug Achieve is now used in more than 7,000 member schools nationally. It has won numerous educational awards including the Media and Methods Educational Technology of the Year award in 2002, and the District Administrator award in 2003. Marshall was recognized as the award recipient of the State School Boards National "Friends of Education" award in 2003, a distinction awarded to Bill Gates in 2002.

In broadcast television, Marshall defined AWS as the leading provider of real-time, local weather and applications for broadcast television. The on-air programming has grown to over 100 broadcast partners nationally, reaching nearly 80,000,000 US households every month.

In 2002, the company signed a milestone agreement for Homeland Security with the National Weather Service to provide the critical weather data from its unique network to the Federal Government for the protection of lives and property.

Outside AWS, Marshall currently serves as chairman of the Committee on Technology Education (COTE) in the state of Maryland, under the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education (MBRT). The COTE committee is responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of the "Maryland Plan for Technology in Education." Marshall also serves on the Advisory Board for The Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education, a premiere educational technology research organization.

Prior to launching AWS, Marshall served as a program manager and lead engineer at BBN (formerly Bolt, Beranek and Newman, the company credited with starting the Internet) on a number of advanced military sensor, signal processing and networking programs. Marshall is a cum laude graduate of the University Of Maryland College of Engineering.