Robert Fabbio

Last updated

Robert A. "Bob" Fabbio
Born (1957-06-21) June 21, 1957 (age 66)
Utica, New York
Nationality American
Alma mater Mohawk Valley Community College (AAS)
SUNY Potsdam (BS)
Rochester Institute of Technology (MS)
Known forFounding and funding various high tech companies
Notable work Tivoli Systems
Awards

Robert "Bob" Fabbio (born June 21, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, technologist, and venture capitalist. He is best known for founding companies in and around Austin, Texas. [4] [5] [6]

Contents

Education

Fabbio received his AAS in Chemistry from Mohawk Valley Community College, a BA in Chemistry/Computer Science from State University of New York at Potsdam, and a MS in Computer Science and Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology. [7]

Career

In 1989, Fabbio founded Tivoli Systems , [8] [9] [10] creators of the Tivoli Software suite; the company was acquired by IBM in 1996. [11] In 1991, Fabbio founded DAZEL Corporation, acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1999. [12] He subsequently served as a Venture Partner for Austin Ventures, and as Managing Director of TL Ventures Inc. [13]

He founded WhiteGlove Health in 2006, [14] and eRelevance Corporation in 2013. [15] Fabbio is also a partner at the Capital Factory, a startup incubator in Austin, Texas. [7]

Fabbio also led the funding and was an active-Chairman of Agere Systems. [7]

In addition, Fabbio held senior technical and executive management positions with Cesura, [16] VIEO, [17] IBM, Prime Computer, Applix, and Kodak. [18] Mr. Fabbio also served as a Rochester Institute of Technology Board of Trustees member. [19]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Gallery of Innovators | RIT Innovation Hall of Fame". www.rit.edu.
  2. ↑ "Hanging out with PledgeCents". KindleInteractive. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ "RIT inducts six into Innovation Hall of Fame". RIT. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ "eRelevance Founder Bob Fabbio on the Austin Startup Scene and Niche Customers". AmericanInno. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  5. ↑ "The state of tech entrepreneurship in Austin". Lucky7. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Austin's Entrepreneurial Genesis | IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin". ic2.utexas.edu. Archived from the original on October 22, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 "Bob Fabbio". CapitalFactory. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Robert A. Fabbio: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". Bloomberg. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Journal Profile: Meet Austin entrepreneur Robert Fabbio, eRelevance CEO". Austin Business Journal. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Founder of Tivoli Joins Business Certainty Blog as Feature Commentator". BusinessWire. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  11. ↑ "I.B.M. to Pay $743 Million For Developer Of Software". The New York Times. February 1, 1996. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  12. ↑ "DAZEL Corp". Inc. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Serial Entrepreneur Reveals What He Learned Launching 5 Companies & Creating Over $1.5B In Shareholder Value". StartupSlingshot. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Pre-IPO Interview with Robert Fabbio Founder and CEO, WhiteGlove House Call Health, Inc" (PDF). IPOCandy. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Bob Fabbio's eRelevance Offers Human Touch To Marketing Services Platform For SMBs". Forbes. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  16. ↑ "Cesura, Inc. Announces First Business Certainty Solution for End-Users of Web Applications". MarketWired. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  17. ↑ "Vieo: A start-up to watch". NetworkWorld. April 21, 2003. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  18. ↑ "BOB FABBIO, Adviser". ShelfBucks. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  19. ↑ "Success Stories". RIT. Retrieved October 22, 2017.

Related Research Articles

A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that do not intend to go public, startups are new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo founder. At the beginning, startups face high uncertainty and have high rates of failure, but a minority of them do go on to be successful and influential.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rochester Institute of Technology</span> Private university near Rochester, New York

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private research university in the town of Henrietta in the Rochester, New York, metropolitan area. The university was founded in 1829 and is the tenth largest private university in the United States in terms of full-time students. It houses science, computer, engineering, and art programs, as well as for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ursula Burns</span> American businessperson

Ursula M. Burns is an American businesswoman. Burns is mostly known for being the CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016, the first black woman to be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and the first woman to succeed another as head of a Fortune 500 company. She additionally was Xerox's chairman from 2010 to 2017.

Tivoli Software encompasses a set of products originally developed by Tivoli Systems Inc. IBM bought the company and ran the operation as its Tivoli Software division. Additional products were acquired and run under the Tivoli portfolio brand. IBM began phasing out use of the Tivoli brand in 2013 and by 2016 had moved the portfolio products into a revised and rebranded hierarchy.

Frank Moss is a researcher, technology and biotechnology entrepreneur, academician and author. Moss was the director of the MIT Media Lab from 2006 to 2011. He remains a professor of the practice and the principal investigator for the New Media Medicine research group, which he founded.

Robert "Bob" Davoli is an American venture capitalist at Gutbrain Ventures in Boston, Massachusetts.

Alexander Muse is an American internet entrepreneur who has founded several internet companies including LayerOne, ShopSavvy, Architel, and ViewMarket. His most recent endeavor, Sumo Ventures, invests in early-stage startups.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saunders College of Business</span>

Saunders College of Business is one of eleven colleges at Rochester Institute of Technology and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB). As of fall semester 2018, Saunders College of Business encompasses nearly 11% of RIT's enrollment, home to more than 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in programs across RIT Global Campuses in Rochester, New York, Croatia, Dubai, Kosovo, and China.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Silicon Hills</span> Tech hub in Texas, United States

Silicon Hills is a nickname for the cluster of high-tech companies in the Austin metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Texas. Silicon Hills has been a nickname for Austin since the mid-1990s. The name is analogous to Silicon Valley, but refers to the hilly terrain on the west side of Austin. High tech industries in the area include enterprise software, semiconductors, corporate R&D, biotechnology, the video game industry, and a variety of startup companies.

Randy Haykin is an entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist and philanthropist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Haykin founded and runs The Gratitude Network, a 501c3 not-for-profit that provides coaching services to social entrepreneurs around the world.

Xconomy was a media company providing news on business, life sciences, and technology focusing on the regions of Boston, Boulder/Denver, Detroit, New York City, Raleigh-Durham, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. The website was launched in June 2007 by founders Robert Buderi and Rebecca Zacks. Xconomy content covered "local personalities, companies, and technological trends to business and technology leaders" with a target audience of "entrepreneurs, business and technology executives and innovators, venture capitalists, angel investors, lawyers, and university researchers and officials." Bill Mitchell of the Poynter Institute described Xconomy in 2010 as reflecting "the insiderish feel of, say, Politico, but with some of the familiarity that you might expect from a small town paper."

Sunil Paul is an Internet entrepreneur who launched Spring Free EV in 2021. He has previously founded companies such as Brightmail and Freeloader, Inc. He was the co-founder and CEO of Sidecar, a San Francisco, based an on-demand peer-to-peer taxi service that later pivoted away from ridesharing toward deliveries of various items.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adam Lyons</span> Entrepreneur

Adam Lyons is an American entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder of The Zebra, an insurance comparison website.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eric Ly</span> Vietnamese-American entrepreneur and investor; co-founder of LinkedIn

Eric Thich Vi Ly is an American entrepreneur and investor. Ly was co-founder of LinkedIn, a social networking site designed specifically for the business community, where he served as its founding chief technology officer. He is currently the CEO and founder of a blockchain based trust protocol Hub, as well as the CEO and co-founder of KarmaCheck providing candidate's background checks.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Austin McChord</span>

Austin McChord is an American businessman and computer engineer. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Datto, a data backup company he founded in 2007. By 2015 Datto had a "purported valuation of $1 billion," making it the only "unicorn" company in the state of Connecticut. In December 2017 Datto was sold to Vista Equity Partners for around $1.5 billion and merged with Autotask, with McChord appointed CEO of the combined company. Named to Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list of leaders in enterprise technology in 2015, he is a periodic author for publications such as Entrepreneur, Business Insider, and TechCrunch.

Chris Gladwin is an American inventor, computer engineer and technology entrepreneur, who has founded or co-founded a series of tech-related companies including MusicNow, Cleversafe and Ocient.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Amir Husain</span> Pakistani-American entrepreneur

Amir Husain is a Pakistani-American artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur, founder of the Austin-based company, SparkCognition, and author of the book, The Sentient Machine.

Cleversafe Inc. was an object storage software and systems developer company. It was founded in 2004 by Chris Gladwin, an American technology entrepreneur. The company was acquired by IBM in 2015, and became an integral part of IBM Cloud Object Storage.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gordon Daugherty</span> American computer scientist and author

Gordon Daugherty is an American computer scientist, business advisor, high-tech executive and author. During his early career, he did research and development work on IP videoconferencing.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.