Education
Born and raised on his family"s farm near Olney, Illinois, Martin Zwilling graduated from the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana) in 1967 with a degree in accounting and a minor in computer science.
Born and raised on his family"s farm near Olney, Illinois, Martin Zwilling graduated from the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana) in 1967 with a degree in accounting and a minor in computer science.
From 1967 to 1981, he worked for International Business Machines Corporation in various locations, doing field sales and marketing, systems engineering, technical support for mainframe computers and applications design. From Kansas City, he moved in 1981 to Boca Raton, Florida to join the development team for the International Business Machines Corporation Personal Computer division, where he worked directly with Philip Don Estridge. He led the International Business Machines Corporation Personal Computer DOS development group and managed the relationship with Microsoft during the early 1980s.
Later he moved to the International Business Machines Corporation Silicon Valley Laboratory to manage software development for a series of compiler and testing products.
He finished his International Business Machines Corporation career in 1997 as Director of a team developing reusable software components with International Business Machines Corporation Global Services, Research Triangle Park, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Zwilling has been a member of two angel investment groups: Arizona Angels and the Arizona Technology Investor Forum (ATIF). He is a board member at Callaman Ventures, an advisor to the Arizona State University Venture Catalyst Program, Executive in Residence at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and member of the advisory boards for several start-up companies in the area.