M. Anthony Marlowe

M. Anthony Marlowe (born March 23rd, 1979) is an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for starting TMone, a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm. He is currently the co-owner and President of TMone which he founded with his friend and former colleague John Burchert. Marlowe also owns and operates several smaller companies including database marketing and real estate. Marlowe has been awarded numerous times for the success he has enjoyed at a young age, including Inc. (magazine)'s 25 youngest CEOs and the Corridor Business Journal's 40 under 40 Business Owners. During his career at TMone he has held the position of CEO and remains one of three shareholders in the company. Marlowe is known in the telesales and database marketing industry due to his involvement with next generation telecom and internet providers such as Vonage, Packet8 and EarthLink. TMone was one of fastest growing companies for 2006 and 2007 and Anthony was personally recognized as one of the 25 youngest CEOs of 5000 in 2006 at the age of 28.
Early career
In March 1998, while attending college, Anthony started working in telesales part time for MCI at the Iowa City contact center. Marlowe was then relocated to Arlington, Virginia for two years to work in MCI’s International Sales & Service Center. There Marlowe managed bi-lingual divisions of the company and set several MCI divisional sale records. Marlowe consistently performed in the top 1%, and as Sales Manager had responsibility for over 200 Agents and Supervisors. His success was recognized by MCI executives in 1999 and 2000 with the MCI Mass Markets division “Best of the Best” and “MVP” awards. Anthony returned to Iowa in 2000 as a sales manager at the MCI Iowa City facility where he had first begun his career and was eventually reunited with his friend and future business partner John Burchert. In 2001 Marlowe was named to MCI's Hall of Fame for management and sales performance. Marlowe was the youngest sales manager to ever win the award, at the age of 22.
In January 2002 when MCI WorldCom was going into bankruptcy Anthony left MCI to serve in a senior sales role with an international business consulting firm, theMay International Company, a Chicago based management consulting firm, from January to May of 2002. Prior to starting what would eventually become TMone, Anthony served as the Vice President of Business Development at Infinity Investments from June 2002 to February 2003, where he brought on several large accounts, assisting the company in achieve profitability ahead of forecast.
TMone
In 2003 Marlowe and his long time friend COO John Burchert started TMone operations, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) firm focused on Outsourced telesales new customer acquisition. TMone quickly gained a reputation for delivering predictable and financially accountable results. In 2004 it became evident to Marlowe and his partners that in order to grow the company would need to expand and specialize. Shifting the company to service new telecom technologies on the rise, the company focused its efforts on supporting emerging technologies with telesales and other integrated marketing services. It was at this point TMone pioneered Business to Consumer and Business to Business direct response marketing on behalf of the most notable emerging technology providers in the industry. TMone essentially matured concurrently with the technology as it moved from early adopters to mass markets. As the company grew, natural synergies developed between direct marketing efforts and database marketing, prompting TMone to establish a division dedicated to aggregating databases for their own clients’ marketing efforts as well as for resale following the list brokerage business model.
In early 2006, Marlowe led TMone’s take-over of MCI's former facility in Iowa City, Iowa, a 27,000 square foot, 300-seat contact center. The next expansion Marlowe initiated was the opening of a new contact center in Des Moines, Iowa in 2009.
As a Business Process Outsourcing and CRM firm TMone has now focused on business to business (B2B) interactions and Inside Sales TMone has managed customers for some of the industry’s most prominent brands such as EarthLink, Vonage, AT&T and Office DepotThe database management division provides direct marketing services to a wide range of clientele including State Farm, Farmers Insurance, Wells Fargo, All State, and Washington Mutual.
Other companies
In 2004, Marlowe co-founded MBM Developments, a holdings company with interests in real estate and database marketing. He is currently co-owner and CEO.
Philanthropy
TMone supports local food and clothing drives, is a sponsor of Iowa City's American Heart Association Heart Walk (http://www.americanheart.org) (AHA) and provides telecommunications subsidies to the Free Burma Rangers (http://www.freeburmarangers.org/) (FBR).

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