Marshall Toplansky is an award-winning Innovation Professor of Management Science at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. He is senior research fellow at the Center for Demographics and Policy and is director of the school’s Analytics Accelerator program. He and co-author Joel Kotkin recently published an economic and social policy brief entitled, “Nurturing California Industries”, which discusses the issues the state faces in maintaining home ownership for the middle class and rebuilding a positive business climate. Marshall is also co-host of “The Feudal Future Podcast”, which is seen twice monthly by viewers around the world.

Co-Founder and former Managing Director of KPMG’s national center of excellence in Data & Analytics, Marshall also co-founded the machine learning company Wise Window, a pioneer in analyzing social media, blogs and news stories to track business trends and predict elections, which was acquired by KPMG in 2012. Marshall was Chairman and CEO of Core Strategies, a technology industry marketing research and strategy consulting firm and formerly head of marketing for U.S. Robotics. Prior to entering the technology industry, Marshall was Senior Vice President at Ogilvy & Mather advertising.

Marshall advises companies in the strategic use of marketing technologies and in using data to craft winning business strategies. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a Director of the Harvard Business School Association of Orange County.He is also Chair of the Board of FinTech company Double Check Solutions. He is a past board member of global NGO CWS. In 2020, he was given a Global Humanitarian award from CWS for his work with the organization addressing the global refugee crisis.

Marshall was elected to the Computing Industry Hall of Fame in 2011 for his role in creating the industry’s largest technical service certification program, A+, which has certified more than 3 million computer technicians worldwide.