Residence New York, US Citizenship USA | Name James Robinson | |
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Born June 13, 1962 ( 1962-06-13 ) New York, NY, United States Alma mater Antioch College
Harvard Business School Occupation Co-Founder, Managing Partner - RRE Ventures | ||
Political party Independent (voter) | ||
RRE's Robinson discusses VC-backed IPO trend
James D. Robinson IV (also known as James D. Robinson, or Jim Robinson, born June 13, 1962) is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Robinson has been a director of many private and several public companies. He has been listed on the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors, and the Institutional Investor Fintech 35.
Contents
- RREs Robinson discusses VC backed IPO trend
- Early life and education
- Career in investment banking
- RRE Ventures
- Board memberships
- Honors and awards
- Politics
- References
Robinson founded or co-founded several other companies, including Abra, Symposia Group, InterVideo Response, and IV Systems. He is the inventor of the Quirky Switch.
Early life and education
Robinson is the son of James D. Robinson III, CEO of American Express. Robinson was raised in New York City and Sun Valley, ID. He attended high school in New York at Robert Louis Stevenson. In his late teens he drove a NYC Taxi.
Robinson is a 1986 Business Administration / Computer Science graduate of Antioch College, and a 1992 MBA graduate of Harvard Business School.
Career in investment banking
Robinson worked at Hambrecht & Quist, JP Morgan & Co, and General Electric.
RRE Ventures
Robinson Co-Founded RRE Ventures (previously Sunset Partners) in late 1994 along with former Harvard Business School classmate (and 92nd Street Y Board President) Stuart J. Ellman. His father, James D. Robinson III, joined them full-time in 1996.
Among the firm's investments are Avant, Betaworks, Braintree, BroadSoft, Business Insider, Buzzfeed, Cyota, Concur, Extricity, eMachines, GiGa Information Group, Goldpocket, iCrossing, Kroll Bond Ratings, Loudeye, Makerbot, Massive, MessageOne, Metapath, Netcentives, Nexsan, OnDeck, Proofpoint, Quirky, Qpass, Recyclebank, Revolution Money, Rubric, Smartpay, ScreamingMedia, Taleo, Taqua, Telocity, Vastera, Venmo, Vine, Vocera, Watchguard, WeddingChannel, Whiptail, and WisdomTree Investments.
Bloomberg seeks out Robinson's opinion on data security and valuation of secondary news sites like Business Insider, whose traffic has surpassed the Wall Street Journal.
Board memberships
Robinson serves on the Board of Directors of the Empire State Realty Trust (owner of the Empire State Building and other properties - NYSE: ESRT), along with several non-profit organizations, including the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the National Organization on Drug Abuse Problems. He is a Director of the Partnership for New York City Investment Fund.
Honors and awards
Robinson was the recipient of a 2007 Lewis Rudin Award in New York City.
Politics
Robinson worked at the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. Robinson worked at the Washington DC office of the 1984 Reagan-Bush Campaign. He claims now to be an Independent.