Rob Weber
Rob Weber has focused his entire career around starting and building emerging growth technology businesses. He is currently a Managing Director of Antiphony, a management consulting firm
that helps companies create sustainable value through innovation. Prior to
Antiphony, Rob was President of Intellifit
Corporation a provider of guaranteed fit technology for on-line apparel
shopping, a venture backed company that was sold in early 2009.
Prior to Antiphony he served as President of knoa,
an e-learning software company, where he successfully redefined the corporate
product strategy and repositioned the company to capitalize on new market
opportunities. Prior to knoa he served as President of Elastomeric
Technologies, a leading electronic connector manufacturer. Rob joined
Elastomeric as President in 1990, turned the company around and sold the
venture backed firm to Tyco International (Formerly Augat Corp) in 1995.
In 1984 Rob became an early team member and served as Marketing Director for
Ensoniq Corp, a
leading manufacturer of electronic musical instruments and multimedia products,
where he led the development of the company's marketing and business plan and
venture capital financing efforts through 1988.
Ensoniq was sold to Creative Technologies of Singapore. He started his
career in venture capital with the investment banking firm of Howard, Lawson
& Company.
Rob is a co-founder of Robin
Hood Ventures, an angel investment group focused on emerging growth
companies, and the Mid-Atlantic Angel Group
Fund.
Rob serves as Lecturer and Senior Fellow for the Fisher Program in Management &
Technology at the University
of Pennsylvania, where he
teaches business planning and entrepreneurial management. In addition, he is a
faculty member in Penn Engineering’s Executive Master’s in
Technology Management program. He is a graduate of the Fisher Program where
he earned Bachelor of Science in Economics (B.S.E.) and Bachelor of Applied
Science (B.A.S.) degrees from The Wharton School and School of Engineering.