Rob Taylor

Rob has spent the last 20 years of his professional career in IT, primarily in internet based application and infrastructure software. He has focused on the wireless communications industry, having served in a variety of global business development and general management positions for companies in the mobile device, services, infrastructure, and internet-based application sectors. Rob is currently a Director of Business Development at API manager Apigee (recently acquired by Google). In a prior life, he was responsible for the developer outreach operations of American Express and Nokia. Rob served as a venture investor at Orange Ventures, a $225 million CVC fund for Orange SA. His coverage area included mobile device operating software, radio area networks, core infrastructure software, and wireless applications and services. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.