Rob is an experienced strategic and operational leader with product management, finance, and investment banking experience at world-class technology companies in the US and Asia. For more than a decade, he led global teams at Amazon.com in a variety of roles actively building, operating, and scaling one of the world’s most innovative companies. These roles included: Vice President, Product Management (FBA), CFO of Asia and Emerging Markets, Vice President of Investor Relations and Vice President of Technology Finance. During his tenure, he was involved in the formation of Amazon Web Services, the launch of Amazon.in, and built innovative Customer experiences in China, and for Sellers globally. Prior to Amazon, he was a senior M&A banker at Broadview International, where he was a strategic advisor to private and public company Founders, Boards, CEOs and CFOs engaged in the internet, software, media and semiconductor industries where he completed transactions worth more than $2B in total consideration. Earlier, he worked at Sun Microsystems and as an equity research analyst covering public technology companies in Taipei, Taiwan.
He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Washington.