Bob Robb

President - Venture Development Associates

Robert Robb, a serial entrepreneur and venture investor, is president of Venture Development Associates, an independent, venture facilitation and technology commercialization enterprise.  Mr. Robb has over 20 years experience in creating, managing and nurturing early stage companies, primarily in the life science, med-tech arena.  He has funded, founded, nurtured and/or managed 22 early stage enterprises and served as CEO of 7 companies.  Seven of the 22 companies he helped launch have established a combined capitalization in excess of $700 million.  He has coached numerous entrepreneurs and advised many early stage companies and has raised more than $80 million for start-up and emerging enterprises.  Mr. Robb served for four and a half years, from 1999 to December 2003, as President and CEO of Quorex Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego-based, venture-backed, pharmaceutical discovery company for which he raised $33 million.  Mr. Robb's experience includes 6 years in venture capital, as president of InMedica Development Corporation, formerly, a public, med-tech, venture fund, and president of Bioventures West, Inc., a seed stage, West Coast, biomedical venture fund.  Additionally, Mr. Robb served for 10 years as a technology commercialization executive at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM Technologies, Inc.) and the University of Michigan to create and launch new ventures.  While serving as Director of the University of Michigan's Technology Management Office, he established one of the leading technology transfer and new venture development programs, nationally, among academic institutions.  The University of Michigan currently generates over $11 million annually in equity and royalty revenue.  Mr. Robb received his Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Biology and Master of Science degree in Parasitology/Microbiology from the University of Utah.