Robert brings over 20 years of senior-level executive experience in general management, sales and marketing, business development, and services at large public companies and start-ups based in Europe, Japan and the U.S, with the last eight years spent in the IT security space. Recently Robert was VP Worldwide Technical Services at Check Point, responsible for a $55M service business which he grew by 35% compared with a 10% revenue growth for products during the same period. He was also VP Marketing and Business Development with Imera, a secure enterprise collaboration vendor and CEO for Solsoft, a network security management company, where he nearly tripled worldwide revenues and achieved over 400 percent annual U.S. growth while raising $12M two months after September 11, 2001.

Robert was also COO of Boostworks, an Internet acceleration software company and held a variety of high-level product marketing, technical services and development management positions at Dassault Systems, Hitachi and IBM.

Robert holds a MS degree in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a graduate of Ecole Centrale de Paris, France.