Marcel Muenster

Co-Founder at Global Running Foundation

📍 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Marcel Muenster is a Johns Hopkins-trained physician and serial entrepreneur at the intersection of healthcare innovation and elite sports. He founded a digital health company that served over 1 million patients and now leads the Global Running League. Colleagues describe him as insightful, unorthodox, and energetic.

Read the full overview →

Experience

11 Years

Current Role

Co-Founder

Job Level

Leadership

Location

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Personality Overview

How Marcel shows up

Communication Style

Decision Approach

Work Preference

Behavioral traits and communication patterns that shape how this person evaluates opportunities, builds trust, and makes decisions in professional settings.

Priorities

Topics Marcel cares about

Sports Entrepreneurship

He is the founder and CEO of the Global Running League, a professional, team-based running league, and recently announced a major partnership with DAZN.

Healthcare Innovation

As a physician with an MPH from Johns Hopkins and a Subject Matter Expert at the World Economic Forum, he focuses on the future of health and healthcare.

+5 more topics Login to view topics

Career

Work history

1-2025

Co-Founder

Global Running Foundation

6-2024

CEO & Founder

Global Running League

4-2020

International Keynote Speaker

BigSpeak Speakers Bureau

5-2019

Subject Matter Expert

World Economic Forum

9-2018 - 12-2022

Founder & Director

The Gritti Fund

In the press

Media appearances

Press Release – Global Running League Launch. Featured in Web Summit

See now

Sir Mo Farah & Marcel Muenster, CEO & Founder, Global Running Foundation - YouTube. Featured in YouTube

+1 more appearances Login to view media

Education

2010 - 2011

Master's Degree

The Johns Hopkins University

2003 - 2010

Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)

University of Münster

Social presence

Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

DISC behavioral profile

Dominance, influence, steadiness, and calculativeness scores with guidance on how this person prefers to communicate and decide.

More profiles

Discover additional public profiles from our index.

Selling to Marcel?

See how to sell to Marcel, free

You are seeing a preview. The full overview, priorities, media, and the complete selling playbook are members only.

How to run the call and the meeting
His cold-calling profile and exact script
How to write an email that lands
How to negotiate and close

Free. Takes 10 seconds. No card.

During a call or a meeting

Be prepared for comments or questions that are critical of your product or your claims

DON'T

Don’t nudge them to do something by using the logic that others have done the same

Showcase how you can impact results but also make sure that you share detailed information too

Reveal the full meeting playbookFree. 10 seconds.

When cold calling

Pattern Interrupt: A polite and formal approach, that doesn’t sound over-friendly or too aggressive makes it hard for them to say no to you.

Pace: Slow down a little bit, especially if you are fast usually. Sound like a 'calming break from the day' person.

Reveal the cold-call scriptFree. 10 seconds.

When writing an email

Subject: To the point, formal

Length of mail: Short

Salutation: No Greeting: No. Tone of words: Confident with a formal touch. Bullet points: Could use. Closing line: Formally state your ask. Complimentary close: None or standard. Overall messaging: Focused on output

Reveal the full email formulaFree. 10 seconds.

Negotiating and closing

The secret to closing Marcel fast: ROI matters the most to them, followed by process and finally proof of results

How fast will Marcel move? They are unlikely to move very fast, especially when it comes to new products or services

Reveal the closing strategyFree. 10 seconds.

★

Know Marcel better than 99% of their network.

Do the same for every prospect you call this week.

Try Humantic AI free

No credit card required