Marc Glosserman

Marc is the Founder and CEO of Hill Country Hospitality, a New York-based restaurant management company. In June 2007 Marc launched Hill Country Barbecue Market – a 10,000 square foot, 300-seat barbecue restaurant in New York City dedicated to honoring the barbecue and live music capital of Texas. Marc’s Texas roots there date back four generations. His grandfather was the mayor of Lockhart, Texas, a small town near Austin with the distinction of being the Official Barbecue Capital of the state. Before entering the world of hospitality, Marc served as Chief Executive Officer of Centric Telecom, a broadband service provider based in London, England from July 2001 to June 2003. Prior to Centric, in 1998 Marc co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer of eLink Communications, a Washington, DC-based Telecommunications Company. Marc was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 2000 and 2001, and is a current member of the Entrepreneurs Organization’s New York Chapter. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for Georgetown Day School, his alma mater elementary and high school located in Washington, DC. Marc graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in International Relations and received his MBA from Columbia University where he attended the school’s Executive Program on evenings and weekends. A fitness and sports enthusiast, Marc completed the Nation’s Triathlon in Washington DC in 2008 and the New York City ING Marathon in 2009. Marc and his wife, Kristen, live in New York City two blocks from their Manhattan restaurants. They have three children – Austin (3 years), Skye (2 years), and Jaclyn (2 months). Their eldest, Austin, was born just hours after Hill Country debuted on the New York restaurant scene.