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Managing Partner, Founders Capital Partners
Bob is the Managing Partner of Founders Capital Partners, a venture capital angel group focusing on early-stage technology-based businesses.
Prior to establishing Founders, Bob was CEO of Angenics, Inc., a biotechnology-based diagnostics company he co-founded in 1981. Before founding Angenics, Bob was the Managing Partner of the Sprout Capital Group, the venture capital arm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. He was involved in research, private equity and venture capital investing with DLJ from 1969 to 1981, and with Kidder Peabody from 1966 to 1969.
Bob is currently a member of the board of West Pharmaceutical Services (NYSE) and Chairman of the Board of HealthBanks Inc. in Burlington, MA. Bob was a director of Indigo Systems Corporation until its acquisition by FLIR Systems, a director of Genetic MicroSystems before its acquisition by Affymetrix, and a director of CrystalVoice Communications until its acquisition by Global IP Sound. He has served on the boards of numerous public and private companies in the past. He is also a former Director of the National Venture Capital Association and a former Governor of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies.
Bob earned a BS in physics from MIT in 1963 and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1965. He also serves as a trustee of MIT.
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