San Francisco, CA | Los Angeles, CA
Also known as: robross
I started my career as an engineer at Apple and went on to build 5 companies resulting in 2 IPO’s and 5 acquisitions after raising $110M in financing: CRI, Zero G, Adero, ValiCert & Individual. My latest company, Gild, is building a social platform for education and recruiting. My career has ranged from consumer to enterprise with a focus on mobile, social, ad/freemium and secure ecommerce. I've built profitable revenue & strategic relationships with Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Cisco, Nokia, Motorola, Reuters, DirecTV, IBM, Intel, News Corp/Fox, Sony, Disney, AOL, ETrade, Forbes and several others. VC's in my companies have included Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Ventures, August Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Charles River Ventures, USVP, Globespan, Spectrum Equity & MC Ventures. Strategic investors have included Microsoft, Intel, Reuters, Fidelity, AOL, France Telecom, Gemplus, Thomson, Knight-Ridder (now McClatchy), FT Ventures, Mitsubishi, Mitsui & Korea Technology Banking. I'm the organizer of the SF Techcrunch Meetup, the Farmville Meetup & SF Tennis Party www.meetup.com/sftechcrunch www.meetup.com/FarmVille-Meetup-Group www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-Tennis-Party Specialties I'm interested in a broad range of services and technologies, with a focus on consumer web, social/mobile commerce, realtime & cloud/saas services.
