Bob Hornung is an entrepreneur, company chief, and business development executive who, over the last twenty-five years, has established and grown several successful ventures. He specializes in creating strategic alliances with industry leaders, developing domestic and international distribution channels, analyzing market dynamics, and identifying new opportunities to maximize sustainable competitive advantages. Bob currently serves as the Managing Director of Vertical Ventures, which specializes in funding and managing early stage companies.His career began at his family’s business in Connecticut, where he developed an interest for industry and its challenges. This interest eventually led him to enroll in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University (formerly the Crouse Hinds School of Management), from which he earned a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Business Marketing.After graduating, one of Bob’s first moves was to join Industrial Sales Corporation (ISC), the largest window industry sales and distribution organization in the United States. For the next few years, he would establish partnerships and pursue various entrepreneurial ventures before developing new fenestration technology in the late 1990’s.In 2017, Bob founded EVO Systems LLC, where he currently serves as Founder and President. EVO is the first, end-to-end, distribution solutions provider serving the fenestration industry throughout the United States. EVO is considered to be one of the nation’s fastest growing firms in the fenestration markets. The company has built an extremely robust ERP, EDI, and other sophisticated advancements to achieve this early success, including its latest development, Cloud 9. Running off an all-in-one cloud business management solution, this advanced ERP system empowers customers with the ability to access a personalized system with their parts, pricing, and other data points specific to their account.