PATRICK ROBBINS
Chairman and CEO
Patrick has founded 3 technology companies, raised over $100M in capital and been responsible for driving over $1 billion in net new revenue over his career. Patrick currently focuses on enabling clients with AI to turn project content and learnings into knowledge accessible to all employees through a natural language interface.
Nvitis, Inc., CEO & Founder; AI semantic search, project documentation, oversight, communications, and knowledge sharing application for companies and individuals to manage a wide range of work content. An AI collaboration framework that captures the work delivered by individuals and their companies so organizations can access and use every aspect of their collective work.
Callison, LLC., CMO; responsible for; branding, marketing, technology, processes and people that drive business globally for this 1,400-architect firm. Key activities; business development, sales and marketing strategy, corporate communications, PR and awards, content development, social media, SEO, CRM, and pipeline management. Executive participant on the acquisition committee, Chaired the Global Retail Executive Team quarterly meetings. Developed Key Account Review process to analyze team and account performance, and Client Satisfaction Interviews to document client experiences.
Previous Experience:
SandStream, Inc., CEO & Founder (1998-2004); corporate funded IPTV system. Over $65M invested by Cisco, Nortel and Texas Instruments among others. Company valuation grew from $12M to $250M in three years (co-inventor of the patent “System and method for providing integrated voice, video and data to a customer premises over a single network”). Sold to Cisco in 2002.
ASC Solutions, Inc., CEO & Founder (1993-1998); consulting and software engineering firm focused on custom software, ecommerce, networking and VOD. Clients included; AT&T, MCI, First USA, CompUSA, EDS, Dell, ORACLE, Informix & many more.
ORACLE, CASE and Consulting Manager (1989-1993); launched new products and service offerings in an 8 State region and grew consulting practice from 3 to 60 in 3 years.
GE Fanuc, Account Manager General Motors (1987-1989); new product launches for factory automation technology. Managed business development activities and processes for programs that range from $1M to $50M investments in our products and services.
Fox Systems, Inc. Account Manager GM, sold and deployed Robotics, Vision Machines & PLC’s (1986)
EDUCATION:
Michigan State University, BA Telecommunications, 1985