Robert Solomon Email & Phone Number

Richboro, Pa, Us

United States

Analysis and problem solving using fully reversable logic systems applied to search, optimization, factoring and other areas previously thought to be NP-complete.

Interim leadership and advice for Senior Executives, Investors, Corporate BoardsConsult to companies and investor groups in the areas of business operations, technology and Intellectual property strategy. Recent assignments include:Product-commercialization strategy and successful venture funding application.Defined and improved intellectual property strategy.Technology and market evaluations resulting in $95MM in equity investments (private equity firm). Created technology and business plans, focus on business model canvas.Advised social startups regarding business and technology issues.Advised IP startup regarding technology and business issues.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Instamour, a leader in real time relationship building using video profiles and video chat. A Safe and Secure dating application that enables people to really "know" their potential partners before they disclose personal information or meet in person.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Use my entrepreneurial, technology and leadership experience in the review of faculty inventions to determine viability for investment and IP protection; Decision making authority to make such investments, Negotiate technology licensing agreements with commercial entities seeking to utilize Temple University Technology.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Designing two graduate courses: Finance of Technologists and Engineering Management Principles which I will teach beginning January 2015

Kanbar College Of Design, Engineeering And Commerce

Adjunct Professor teaching a graduate course in Business Model Innovation.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Utilize significant business, technology and intellectual property experience to provide advice and perform due diligence services relative to potential venture investments.

Greater Philadelphia Area

We bring personal service to the digital world. Provide world class personal service to your customers via real time video communications with just the click of a button on your website. Customers do not need to leave your site and no download is required. Contact us at See2B.com

Cambridge, Ma

LinkCycle reduces manufacturing costs through patent pending advanced methods and algorithms. Linkcycle analyzes existing big data (such as energy use) and determines where savings may be achieved (e.g., which machines are using the most energy) without having to step foot onto the plant floor–no more hardware, no more audits.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Greater New York City Area And Orlando, Florida

Responsible for all operational aspects of an emerging technology company focused on providing a unique conversational interface to OTS analytics engines, empowering business people to gain business insights by enabling them to directly create/perform sophisticated information analytics/analysis. The "system" automates data model creation minimizing the efforts of scarce and expensive data scientists and virtually eliminating the typical translation issues that may arise when business domain experts communicate with technologists and business analysts.

Philadelphia, Pa

Former Member of the Board of Advisors for Choosito!, the next generation content curation platform, supported by advanced natural language technology and machine learning. Provide advice across a wide variety of areas including strategy and tactics.

Philadelphia, Pa

Helped to create Health IT/education software company enabling anyone with a smartphone to provide quality and consistent autism treatment/training. Retrofitted "Lean Startup" methodologies. Focused company on developing a minimum viable product (MVP) in order to validate product and begin customer development. Directed company to utilize an application simulation to gather product feedback in advance of MVP. Raised $150k in seed funding via and NSF SBIR grant. Established relationships with key autism influence groups and venture investment community.

Cambridge, Ma

Early stage analytics company focused on corporate stakeholder engagement (including sentiment), especially related to sustainability, via the analysis of unstructured information from diverse data sources. Responsible for strategy, all operations, sales (direct and indirect channels), marketing and product development of an analytics system based on open source (e.g., Apache Lucene: SOLR, etc.) and proprietary development utilizing concept hierarchies, machine learning and NLP. Personally led team in the acquisition of key client(s) and partnerships. funding discussions, marketing and PR efforts.

Provide strategic IP advice, led (and prevailed in) copyright litigation matter, prosecute patent applications, provide patent litigation support, advise clients regarding the protection of their IP assets including patents, copyrights and trademarks, advise clients on commercialization, business planning and funding.

Led company from promising technology concept (with no revenues and no cohesive business model) to viable product and successful market introduction. Instituted software engineering practices; developed strategic partnerships; gained funding commitment; and brought revenue-generating product to market. Drove rapid progress on multiple initiatives through effective hands-on leadership of 11-person multicultural firm.Revamped core technology based on assessed market potential; raised $500K in investment funding.Transformed market focus from B2C to B2B; prospected and closed first sale ($390K software/licensing).Developed strategic partnerships and joint ventures to leverage powerful search-agent technology. Partners included Barpoint.com, Palm Computing, and a Community Area Network start-up (part of a consortium with Intel).Negotiated sale of the firm, delivering positive return to investors and preserving all staff positions.

Led technology and business activities for spin-off company that grew from start-up to $5MM revenue, zero to 42 name-brand customers, and, within 2 years, successful merger with larger entity yielding excellent return for investors. Developed strategic plans and spearheaded their tactical implementation. Directed corporate operations (sales, marketing, R&D, finance) as well as technology development and commercialization. Created a leading brand in enterprise/Internet integration—OmniEnterprise.Obtained $6MM venture funding from Goldman Sachs.

Leader of the technology organization for the world's largest public gaming company. Led an international team of software/system developers based on nearly every continent.Responsible for 24X7 operation of high performance distributed software at over 150 data centers and 300,000+ point-of-sale computers.Grew technology-organization revenues ten-fold, from $30MM to nearly $300MM, and grew share of total corporate revenues from 20% to 50%. Principal player in $300MM LBO by GTECH senior management and, 18 months later, IPO that created over one billion dollars in shareholder value.Led technology licensing/transfer efforts (e.g., technology licensing/transfer agreement with STL yielding over $60 million in first year revenues.)Implemented effective project management methodology that enabled design, development and deployment of up to 150 simultaneous projects with geographically dispersed teams in over 100 data centers around the world.

On the Board of Directors of one of the earliest medical imaging companies.

Successfully developed and released major new communications product platform (LAN Gateway Server). Formulated Datapoint’s “standards-oriented” marketing strategy and created a new UNIX-based computer system product line. Led corporate efforts for helping to shape early 802 standard development.Defined and developed new data-communications marketing strategy based on comprehensive customer analysis and market research. Increased revenue over 40% during tenure.Leader of software/systems development teams basedin U.S., Canada, France, Sweden and Belgium.

Led the development of the first commercial product lifecycle software suite.

Led development of first commercial product life cycle managment system.

Led development of government specific computer hardware and software products.

Built software development and developer support organization from 0-23 engineers in less than 6 months. Served a primary contact for 3rd party software development organizations.

Jd, Law

Passed Bar in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Master'S, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: President of ACM Student Representative to Faculty Tenure Committee Specialized in database management systems.

Ba, Economics And Urban Studies, Economics And Urban Studies

Activities and Societies: Student Government Behavioral Simulation Lab Researcher Genetics researcher Co-author of a paper on behavior.

Education record

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Intellectual Property, Business And Alternative Dispute Resolution

Licensed to Practice in PA and before the USPTO. Inactive in NJ (retired)

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Intellectual Property, Business And Alternative Dispute Resolution