Rob recently joined Nobska Group as a partner. He brings a focus on IT infrastructure, technology implementation and operations process design as key components to successful strategy and business execution. He is an accomplished operations and business development executive with a history of building and managing high performance teams and organizations, both entrepreneurial and corporate. Additionally, Rob has been involved in business turnaround; crisis management; domestic manufacturing; and off-shore manufacturing and sourcing.

Rob leverages these skills to reduce costs and increase margins. Specifically, Rob helped companies reduce time to market in manufacturing by up to 25%, guided warehousing companies through the reduction of infrastructure costs by more than 20% and has led many labor process redesigns resulting in reductions of variable costs of up to 60%.

Rob’s roles have included Chief Operating Officer of Versient, Vice President of Operations of Agora Publishing, Director, Information Technology of The Stride Rite Corporation, and Practice Manager, Technical Consulting and Integration Services of Eventra, an electronic commerce/EDI software company. Rob began his career in the apparel industry and has served as Vice President, Manufacturing of one company and as President of another prior to engineering its sale to a larger company.

Rob has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and earned his MBA from Columbia University. He serves as a mentor and coach for startup ventures through the MIT Enterprise Forum, a local not-for-profit organization.