Marc Magerman
Marc Magerman is a result driven, highly motivated entrepreneur with a strong record in building high performance organizations which generate significant top and bottom-line results and return on investment.

In addition to building the Massachusetts Burger business, Marc is President and Owner of Cinema Marketing Group, which has offered exclusive, local and regional cinema advertising since 1995 at leading independently owned cinemas throughout New England and New York.  As President, CMG’s profitability has doubled since taking over in 2002.  He is responsible for all aspects of sales and marketing including building and developing the sales, client service and creative departments.  Further, he is solely responsible for all affiliate theater acquisition including contract negotiation, execution and fulfillment.

Prior to CMG, he was General Manager for Cox Target Media’s largest company owned franchise.  After negotiating options to purchase the franchise upon successful turnaround, he was able to restructure the business which was losing over $1 million on $6 million in sales, and turn it into a profitable $10 million dollar business in three years.

Before Cox Target Media, Marc held a variety of high level sales and marketing positions which included Vice President of Sales for Fanfare Media Works and Advo Inc., the nation’s leading direct mail company with over $1 billion in sales.

Marc graduated from the University of Massachusetts and lives in Franklin, Massachusetts with his wife and two children.

Peter Biro
Peter is an experienced operating and transaction executive.  He was most recently Chief Operating Officer for Lyris, Inc., (OTCBB: LYRI), a publicly-traded marketing software company that during his tenure was ranked #1 in sales growth in 2006 by Baseline Magazine.  In addition to founding Massachusetts Burger Enterprises, he currently runs corporate and business development for Verne Global, a provider of data center infrastructure backed by General Catalyst Partners with operations in Reykjavik, Iceland and Washington, DC.

Together with Marc, Peter leads the company's efforts to build out the Mass. Burger business and the team in Massachusetts.

Prior to Lyris, Peter was founder and managing partner of The Cowper Group, a Boston-based corporate development consulting firm focused on small to mid-market technology companies seeking to augment their growth through acquisitions.  Working with both venture-backed and public companies, including Cinema Marketing Group, Peter actively assisted clients with transaction sourcing, execution, and integration.

Peter earned an MBA from Stanford University. He graduated summa cum laude from Duke with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and bachelor of arts degrees in both computer science and history.  He also teaches the course "Buying a Small Business" in the MBA program at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Peter lives in Wellesley, MA with his wife Nova and twin daughters, Sophie and Lily.

Peter Weber

Peter Weber is a Boston-area native who now resides in suburban Washington, where he became a Five Guys fanatic.  He is an accomplished senior executive who has been the driving force behind the massive growth and market success of several high-technology ventures.  In addition to founding and continuing to help drive Mass. Burger's growth, Peter led a buyout and now serves as Chief Executive Officer of Carpathia Hosting, an Ashburn, VA.-based provider of hosting services to enterprise and government customers.

Most recently, he founded and built SevenSpace into the fastest-growing private company in the Metro DC region, leading the IT services firm from start-up to $25 million in revenue in less than four years, resulting in its sale to Sun Microsystems.  After orchestrating the sale of the company to Sun Microsystems, he was brought on board to lead the integration and was quickly promoted to Senior Vice President of the $5 billion Services Group at Sun.

Peter’s background in private equity investment lends credibility and expertise to his leadership of start-up and expanding growth ventures. For two years he was Vice President at The Carlyle Group, one of the nation’s premier private equity firms, where he managed the IT services portfolio. Previously, upon being selected for the prestigious Kauffman Fellows Program, he worked with Spectrum Equity Investors for an intensive year-long internship.

Peter has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts. He resides with his family in Waterford, Virginia.

Bill Ranney
Bill Ranney is a seasoned senior financial executive with a long proven track record of success in both large and small companies.  Bill led Mass. Burger's initial debt financing efforts and continues to work closely with the organization on financial planning and analysis.  He is also Chief Financial Officer of Carpathia Hosting.

As CFO for the IT Services start-up, SevenSpace, he drove the company to profitability within 24 months, during which time he orchestrated two acquisitions, rigorous management controls and multiple rounds of financing.  Following four years of increasing sales and profits, he worked closely with the SevenSpace CEO to manage the sale of SevenSpace to Sun Microsystems.  Subsequently, Ranney supervised the successful integration of SevenSpace into Sun’s Service Group and managed the planning and operations for the $5 Billion Services Management Group.

Bill has also held numerous senior finance positions over 15 years at Verizon, including vice president of its $1+ Billion directory publishing business and vice president responsible for the construction and launching of Verizon’s long distance voice and data network.  He also participated in several acquisitions and new business start-ups at Verizon.

Ranney holds an MBA from Yale University and a BS from Cornell.  A recovering New Englander who somehow roots for the New York Football Giants, he resides with his family in Potomac, Maryland.