He has headed Corporate Strategy, Business Development and M&A at two pan-European companies, where he helped architect and execute the consolidation of the independent ISP market that resulted in a $5.1 billion merger. For more than 16 years, he served as Vice Chairman of Interoute Communications, Ltd., headquartered in London. Robert helped to build Interoute into the European Union’s largest, independent fiber and cloud infrastructure business, with operations in more than 38 countries. Interoute was sold in 2018 for $2.3 billion.
Before his pan-European ventures, he founded and sold two information services companies and had successfully turned around a third in the US. He also helped drive the media conglomerate Time Warner's early Web-based business efforts.
He is a founder and partner in D4.
Robert served as a jet pilot in the U.S. Air Force. He earned a BS in Physics from the United States Air Force Academy, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University while flying for the Air Force, and an MBA from The Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania.