Number of Founded Organizations 2
CB Rank (Person) 50,769
  • Primary Job Title CEO and Founder
  • Primary Organization 
    Enfore

Marco Boerries is a German entrepreneur with a passion for making ideas work.

Inspired by a Silicon Valley school exchange back in 1984, he founded his first company Star Division, as a 16-year-old in 1985. The company created the popular office suite StarOffice and later OpenOffice.org.  Marco sold Star Division to Sun Microsystems in 1999 and

stayed on as Vice President of Desktop & Webtop Software until 2001.

In parallel to Star Division he started his second company Star Finanz as a joint-venture with the Deutsche Sparkassen Organisation in 1996, to re-invent online banking with StarMoney – that became the leading product in Germany. Marco sold his share in StarFinanz to his joint venture partners in 2001.

After leaving Sun Microsystems and selling Star Finanz, Marco started his third company Verdisoft in the summer of 2001 based in Palo Alto, California and Hamburg, Germany. At Verdisoft Marco and his team developed the Connected Life platform for connected devices like computers, smart phones and connected TV’s. Starting in 2003 Verdisoft was able to showcase solutions on the ConnectedLife platform, that resemble what we know from services like iCloud today. Marco sold Verdisoft to Yahoo in early 2005 and stayed on to lead the ConnectedLife division until early 2009 - driving Yahoo’s Broadband, Mobile and TV efforts, globally.

Returning back to Germany in 2009 Marco started his fourth company NumberFour in Berlin to re-imagine the way small businesses are run, and later established offices in Hamburg, Germany and Palo Alto, California. Together with his team he is working extremely hard to develop and design a business platform to fulfill NumberFour’s Mission “Helping 200 Million+ Run Their Business”.

Marco Quote: I deeply care about enabling small businesses to become more competitive and successful. Having started four businesses myself, I know how hard and rewarding it can be at the same time. Small is beautiful!

Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 3
Marco Boerries is the CEO and Founder at Enfore. Additionally, Marco Boerries has had 3 past jobs including EVP Connected Life at Yahoo.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Yahoo
EVP Connected LifeFeb 2005May 2009
Verdisoft
CEO & FounderAug 2001Feb 2005
Sun Microsystems
VP Webtop & Application SoftwareAug 1999Aug 2001
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 1
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
HackFwd
Board Member