David A. Marcus

David Marcus
Marcus in 2016
Born	(1973-04-12) April 12, 1973 (age 51) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Co-founder and CEO of Lightspark
Years active	1996–present

David Marcus (Romanian: Mărcuș; born April 12, 1973) is an American entrepreneur. He was the co-creator of Diem, a cryptocurrency project initiated by Facebook. He is the former president of PayPal and Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook where he ran the Facebook Messenger unit from 2014 until 2018. In December 2017, Marcus was appointed to the Coinbase Board of Directors, from which he stepped down in 2018. In 2021, he stepped down from Facebook. As of May 2022 he is the co-founder and CEO of Lightspark, a cryptocurrency startup which works on bitcoin and the Lightning Network.^[1]