Robert L. Robb is Associate Director—Venture Development for The Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at UTD. Mr. Robb is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas and has been a member of UTD Faculty since 2005, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in entrepreneurship. Mr. Robb is also a consultant and an advisor to several early stage enterprises. Mr. Robb’s perspective of new venture development is that of entrepreneur, venture investor and new venture developer with over 26 years experience in creating, managing and advising emerging enterprises. He has funded, founded, nurtured and/or managed 24 early stage companies and served as CEO of 7 emerging enterprises. Seven of the 23 companies Mr. Robb assisted have established a combined market capitalization in excess of $700 million and several companies were acquired by larger firms. He has coached entrepreneurs and advised early stage companies in all facets of creating and managing new ventures and has raised more than $80 million for start-up and early stage companies.

Mr. Robb’s experience includes 6 years with two, seed-stage, venture capital firms, including a public venture fund, and 10 years as a venture developer and technology commercialization executive with Baylor College of Medicine (BCM Technologies, Inc.) and as the director of University of Michigan’s technology transfer office with responsibility to commercialize technology through the creation of new ventures.

His industry experience spans healthcare, biotechnology, medical devices , medical instrumentation, financial services, oil and gas, travel industry, and training. He currently serves as advisor or consultant to Aqua-Synergy, BioSig ID, BioHealth Advance, Solarno, North Texas Enterprise Center, and IMBST at UTD.

Mr. Robb received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Biology from the University of Utah, and a Master of Science Degree in Parasitology/Microbiology from the University of Utah.

Robert L. Robb

Assoc. Dir. – Venture Development, Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UTD

Senior Lecturer, UTD School of Management Member of the Executive Committee, Institute For Innovation and Entrepreneurship