Financial Services >> Analyst Interviews >> September 23, 2003
JAMES ROBINSON is a Founder and General Partner at RRE Ventures. He has
been active within the technology community for over 20 years as an
entrepreneur, banker and investor. While earning his double degree in
Computer Science and Business Administration at Antioch College during
the early 1980s, Mr. Robinson worked as a programmer, developing
internal e-mail systems for state government, and later founded and was
President of IV Systems Inc., a consulting firm that created custom
applications for Unix workstations. In 1986, Mr. Robinson joined JP
Morgan & Company, where he spent four years working on technology-
related assignments, first within the Global Exposure Management group
designing and testing software for risk management systems, and later as
an investment banker in the Corporate Finance group focused on
technology and communications companies. Mr. Robinson earned an MBA from
Harvard in 1992, and subsequently joined Hambrecht & Quist Venture
Capital in San Francisco. While at H&Q he led investments primarily
within the software, services and communications sectors, and served as
a General Partner across several investment funds for the firm. Since
co-founding RRE in late 1994, Mr. Robinson has been responsible for over
20 technology investments, and currently serves as a Director of Evoke
Software (data profiling software), Goldpocket Interactive (interactive
television software and infrastructure), ReefEdge (wireless networking
software for 802.11 applications), and Vivre (luxury goods internet site
and catalog company). Mr. Robinson is involved in several non-profit
endeavors, serving on the Board of Directors of the Federal Law
Enforcement Foundation, The New York Software Industry Association
(NYSIA), the New York City Investment Fund's Information Technology
Group, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the National Association
on Drug Abuse Problems. Mr. Robinson joined the Young President's
Organization in 1999. Profile
Mr. Robinson: RRE Ventures was founded in 1994. The founding principals
were Stuart Ellman, my father James Robinson III, and
