Robert is an innovative and entrepreneurial business executive with extensive operational and development experience spanning more than 25 years across a number of sectors, including the life sciences industry, software and healthcare IT. He currently serves as managing director at Springbok Ventures, a firm providing capital and guidance to early-stage businesses. Prior to Springbok Ventures, Rob successfully led Savara, Inc. as CEO since co-founding the company in 2008 and notably, has attracted into Savara one of the largest historical amounts of investment capital from non-institutional private investors. Savara was listed on NASDAQ in 2017. Prior to co-founding Savara, Rob founded and served as CEO at Evity, Inc., a developer of web-based applications, which he subsequently sold to BMC Software, Inc. Based on his work at Savara and Evity, Rob was honored as a three-time finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, wining the life science award in 2018. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors on the Austin Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and currently on the non-profit board of the Forward Foundation.