Profiles · Principals
- Type
- Person
- Role
- Executive
- Updated
The profile
Co-founder of Kabbage; founded Roadie in 2014. Not a named defendant in the Kabbage PPP litigation.
Identity and role
Marc Gorlin — co-founder of Kabbage (with Robert Frohwein and Kathryn Petralia), the Atlanta small-business lender founded in 2008–2009. By the pandemic he was running Roadie.
Biography / career arc
The PGP Corporation line has no source document on this site. Co-founded Kabbage in 2008–2009 (UGA Today). In 2014 founded Roadie, a crowdsourced last-mile delivery company (UGA Today; Roadie blog), which UPS acquired in 2021 (Roadie blog).
Pandemic-relief / PPP-EIDL role
Frohwein was Kabbage's CEO and Petralia its president during the 2020 PPP period.
No separate personal or company-side PPP/EIDL loan, SVOG grant, Provider Relief Fund payment, or other own-relief receipt is identified in the cited sources for Marc Gorlin.
Legal status / controversies
No charges. The Department of Justice's December 20, 2024 release on its False Claims Act intervention against former Kabbage executives names Frohwein and does not name Gorlin (release text).
Where they are now (2025–2026)
Not documented in any copy we have beyond the Roadie material.
Documents on this site
Original source documents and archived copies
- Profile: Kabbage / K Servicing
- UGA Today, "Marc Gorlin: That's His Story"
- Roadie, "A look back at Roadie's 2021" UPS acquisition
Sources
- LinkedIn, Marc Gorlin profile: LinkedIn, Marc Gorlin profile (original: linkedin.com · stored capture) (self-reported profile; LinkedIn pages cannot be mirrored into the archive)
- DOJ, United States joins False Claims Act lawsuit against former Kabbage executives (Frohwein, Petralia, Spencer Robinson; not Gorlin): DOJ 2024 12 20 U.S. Intervenes Kabbage Executives Fca (original: justice.gov · stored capture)
- Pietschner v. Kabbage, Inc. — U.S. District Court, E.D. Tex., Sherman Division
- DOJ complaint in intervention, United States ex rel. Pietschner v. Petralia, Frohwein, and Robinson: DOJ complaint in intervention, United States ex rel. Pietschner v. Petralia, Frohwein, and Robinson (original: justice.gov · stored capture)
- Roadie, "A look back at Roadie's 2021" (UPS acquisition): A Look Back at Roadie's 2021 — By Heather Hughes (UPS, Acquired Roadie) (original: roadie.com · stored capture)
- UGA Today, "Marc Gorlin: That's His Story": Marc Gorlin, the Founder and CEO of Roadie — Named a 2021 Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young (original: news.uga.edu · stored capture)
- Cross-reference: Robert Frohwein, Kathryn Petralia, Kabbage