Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture

Bob is a Founding Partner and Mentor Partner of Jackson Square Ventures. His participation in JSV III centers on mentorship role where he will support JSV team development, deal flow sourcing and selecting efforts, supporting JSV portfolio companies, as well as managing his portfolio companies to successful outcomes.

Bob has deep expertise in start-up and scaling execution, particularly in the sales and marketing and go-to-market domains. His investments span cloud applications, enterprise software, and security and include AlienVault (acquired by AT&T), Crownpeak (acquired by K1 Ventures), Demandbase, Fortify (acquired by HP), Intacct (acquired by Sage), Marketlive (acquired by Visa Equity Partners), Hightail (acquired by OpenText), Replay (acquired by Computer Associates), Sparkcentral, Vormetric (acquired by Thales), and Waterline Data.

Before his career in venture capital, Bob spent years as a startup operator at Sybase, Clarify, and Extensity, where he executed in a series of leadership roles progressing from SVP of Sales to CEO.

A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Bob lives in Danville with his wife.