Marty Abbott

Marty founded AKF Partners with Mike Fisher and Tom Keeven in 2007. He was formerly the COO of Quigo, an advertising technology startup sold to AOL, and the SVP/CTO of eBay during its growth from start-up to a Fortune 500 company. Prior to eBay, Marty held domestic and international engineering, management, and executive positions at Gateway and Motorola. He spent a total of 12 years on active and reserve duty as an officer in the U.S Army.

Marty has a Doctor of Management/Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from Case Western Reserve University, an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, a BS in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy (West Point), and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program (Program for Management Development).

Marty has served on the Board of Directors of a number of public and private companies.

He is the co-author of three books translated into 5 languages, two of which are in their second edition.