Everbridge provides clients with the information necessary to assess their exposure to emergencies and enable them to respond to keep their employees and assets safe.

Crowd Emergency & Disaster Response (CEDR)CEDR's mission is to coordinate the work of volunteers from around the world to create and utilize innovative technical solutions to challenges in disaster response and mitigation. As Vice President of Innovation, Rob is responsible for identifying and assessing new and emerging technologies which could help improve future disaster response efforts. In addition, Rob leads CEDR's research and outreach efforts to identify other groups working in the digital disaster response space and establish partnerships and relationships to facilitate knowledge sharing and coordination.

Net Objectives provides Lean-Agile thought leadership, training, consulting and coaching solutions for business, management, teams and individuals.As Chief Operating Officer, envisioned, planned and implemented new operations and financial processes, transitioning the company’s distributed national workforce to a more effective cloud-based infrastructure. Oversaw all operations supporting the company's business, ensuring Finance, Human Resources, IT and other groups were in alignment to enable Net Objectives to deliver world-class solutions to customers.

Technossus is an Irvine, CA based technology consulting and cloud solutions provider that delivers enterprise-class software development, systems integration, and technology guidance to clients in Southern California and nationwide. Responsible for driving client acquisition and new business development from definition of marketing messages and targets through deal closure:• Led sales team to 110% increase in new business revenue for 2015• Drove $1M personal new business sales including penetrating company's first Fortune 500 account• Led award nomination and submission processes resulting in OC Tech Alliance Hi-Tech Award for Technossus Helix Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).• Defined & implemented company’s first formal sales processes including account and opportunity qualification, sales cycles and stages, CRM tracking and forecasting.• Expanded sales responsibilities to also drive marketing upon departure of previous marketing manager.• Defined content marketing and web / social media strategy including tool selection, campaign definition and execution.

Owned responsibility for all activity in strategic client accounts including both successful project delivery and business development. Provided a single point of leadership to drive account activities and ensure customer satisfaction: • Exceeded all sales and revenue managed targets for FY12 and FY13• Established successful C-level executive relationships at strategic accounts• Achieved 106% sales ($6.3M) and 145% revenue managed ($7.3M) in FY13• #2 in North America for both total sales and total revenue delivered in FY13

Kithbridge pioneered social media analytics by providing strategic consulting and services for monitoring, analyzing, and leveraging social media. Kithbridge delivered customized technology, services, and strategies for businesses, political campaigns, nonprofits, and other organizations which sought to fully engage with the growing and dynamic world of social media in its formative years. Clients included major nonprofits, statewide ballot initiatives, public relations firms, and national foundations. As founder and President, responsible for all aspects of business operations, including:• Secured angel investment funding to launch the company.• Created analytics techniques enabling monitoring of social media platforms such as weblogs and Twitter.• Analyzed and quantified social media metrics, enabling clients to make informed tactical and strategic decisions.• Assessed new technologies and industry trends in social media.• Drove all marketing, business development, client relations, delivery and support.In addition to his professional work, Rob has been a trailblazer in the use of weblogs and new media for online activism. Rob was co-founder of the government waste watchdog movement Porkbusters, and spearheaded the "Secret Hold" effort which resulted in the passage of the historic Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (co-sponsored by then Senator Obama). In September of 2007, in recognition of his work as founder of The Victory Caucus and assisting veteran and troop support organizations, Rob was honored to be invited to the White House to spend an hour with President Bush discussing the war in Iraq and the role of online media in the educating the public about the conflict.

Led overall management activities across the practice; monitored financial performance of all project engagements. Developed and set business strategy for the group. Mentored project managers in best practices, reviewed key deliverables. Developed standards & methodologies for all engagements. Personally managed key strategic client engagements, including the following:• WAN Deployment: Managed team of twenty client and 3rd party vendor personnel in the deployment of new WAN circuits and equipment to remote offices throughout Orange County, working directly with the VP of IT.• Datacenter Relocation: Led effort to assess client’s datacenter construction project following the WAN deployment at the personal request of the VP of IT. Worked with Unisys HVAC / physical infrastructure expert to redefine project requirements and recommend corrective actions. Managed planning and successful execution of relocation effort to physically relocate all equipment from the old datacenter to the new.

Delivered complex enterprise initiatives for Fortune 100 companies. Managed key strategic engagements, including:• Enterprise Web Portal: Led successful vendor assessment, product selection, and technical implementation of web portal & content management system for Fortune-100 high tech firm. • Order Entry System: Led team of fifty developers during implementation and rollout of Windows-NT based new order entry system for a major personal computer firm.• Vendor Relationship & Development Manager: Managed relationship between Accenture team and primary vendor developing platform for service order processing of a major telecommunications firm.• Billing & Order Entry Systems Implementation: Led development team in design, coding and testing of modules implementing the business logic of a new billing and ordering platform for a major telecommunications firm.• ISP Back Office System Re-Engineering: Developed requirements for a new back office system (including registration, provisioning, authentication, and billing event collection) for a regional internet service provider.