Larry Weber
Larry Weber (born July 7, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and the founder, chairman & CEO of Racepoint Global, a communications agency headquartered in Boston, MA. Weber co-founded the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX), and acts as Executive Chairman of the MITX Board of Directors. Career. Weber started his own public relations company, The Weber Group, in 1987, and shortly after launched Thunderhouse, an interactive marketing firm. Within 10 years, The Weber Group was the world's largest and most established technology public relations firm. The Interpublic Group of Companies purchased The Weber Group in late 1996, and  in early 2000, Weber was named chairman and CEO of Interpublic's Advanced Marketing Services group, a $3 billion unit including the company's public relations, research and analysis, and entertainment holdings. In the summer of 2001, Weber engineered the merger of Weber Shandwick Worldwide and BSMG Worldwide to form the world's largest public relations firm. After leaving Interpublic, he founded Racepoint. Weber has counselled many brands on marketing and business strategy including AT&T, IBM, and Huawei, as well as working with the governments of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and Rwanda. He also led the marketing of the  XO laptop by One Laptop per Child (OLPC). Weber is also a guest lecturer at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Appointments. Weber serves on the board of directors at Pegasystems, the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness, and the Macromill Group.