Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Martin Lauber is a marketing
industry entrepreneur with more than 30 years experience building professional
service companies and creating marketing communications for brands like Disney,
Levis, Taco Bell, eBay, PayPal, Wells Fargo, Mercedes Benz and Virgin. In 1997
Martin founded Swirl, a major integrated marketing agency which sold to
Dentsu/McGarry Bowen in 2017. He founded 19York in 2014. The
"anti-holding" company, 19York, makes minority investments in and
strategically supports boutique-sized marketing agencies and technology
platforms. The agencies invested in by 19York have partnered with Fortune 500
companies, including Microsoft, P&G, InBev, Amazon, Starbucks, Clorox,
Sprint, and Nestle. In 2019, Martin founded 19Y Ventures
which participates in Seed to C-round investments in Mobility,
Food Science and eCommerce start-up companies. Martin is an avid car
collector and vintage race car driver in his spare time.