DOUG ROBERTSON CEO, President and Founder Experience
Mr. Robertson is a serial entrepreneur, board member, executive, founder, and investor with 35+ years of experience in the technology and software industries. In these roles, he had experience in multiple transactions including three initial public offerings and 10 acquisitions. Mr. Robertson is currently CEO of and Co-Founded Fliphound, LLC, a leading automated and local programmatic buying platform for the digital out-of-home advertising (“OOH”) industry. As CEO, Mr. Robertson expanded Fliphound’s network from one market in Wichita to 1,000 markets nationally. Mr. Robertson is also CEO and Co-Founder of Atomic Billboards, a leading billboard company.
From 2006-2012, Mr. Robertson served as the CEO and President of Robertson Piper Software Group (“RPSG”), a leading enterprise healthcare, pharmacy, pharmacy benefit management (“PBM”), and point-of-sale software company. At RPSG, Mr. Robertson secured equity and debt financing to execute an enterprise software roll-up. RPSG served over 4,000 enterprise customers. Mr. Robertson grew the company organically and via six strategic acquisitions and divestures resulting in a successful corporate exit to a strategic buyer. Mr. Robertson was on the board of directors of The American Pharmacy Alliance for six years.
Prior to RPSG, Doug spent three years at Platinum Equity as Senior Vice President and was responsible for deal sourcing, acquisitions and divestitures and management of Platinum’s Silicon Valley practice. Mr. Robertson actively covered more than 1,000 intermediary, corporate development, and operating executives, and spent significant time interacting with leading technology companies and TMT bankers. Robertson facilitated the sales to strategic buyers for two investee companies, Gupta Technologies, LLC, and Axcera, LLC.
Previously, Mr. Robertson was EVP, and Co-Founder of Entera, Inc., an infrastructure, streaming, internet and media software business. Mr. Robertson helped Entera develop its patent portfolio and assembled one of the largest streaming media software development teams. Along with capital raises, Mr. Robertson oversaw the sale of the company for $440 million to Cacheflow, Inc (renamed BlueCoat Systems, Inc NASDAQ: BCSI).in 2000.
Prior to Entera, Mr. Robertson was one of the first employees at Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ:LVLT), where he worked in product marketing and business development and was instrumental in building the IP engineering executive team.
Before Level 3, Mr. Robertson was Director of Marketing/Business Development of Motorola’s Multimedia Group where he played a key role in establishing Motorola as the dominant player in the cable telephony and modem industry. At Motorola, Mr. Robertson also worked extensively on strategic partnerships, was a corporate spokesman for Motorola investor relations to both buy and sell side investors and served as a representative on the Government Relations and Technology Patent Review Board team. Mr. Robertson was responsible for several Motorola investments including @Home Corporation (NASDAQ: ATHM), Viewpoint DataLabs, Virtus Corporation, and WorldGate Communications (NASDAQ: WGAT).
Early in his career, Mr. Robertson spent five years with KPMG’s technology consulting group in Chicago, Toronto and London working with clients including Apple, Bass PLC, BOC Ltd, and Royal Bank of Canada.
Mr. Robertson has authored more than a dozen articles and research studies in leading technology publications and has been a frequent speaker at leading technology and investment conferences hosted by leading organizations including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Cowen & Company, Streaming Media and the Yankee Group.
Mr. Robertson has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Olaf College. Mr. Robertson spent his junior year of college at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, England.