Board of Directors
James D. Robinson IV
General Partner, RRE Ventures
Special Events Committee
Jim Robinson is a Founder and General Partner at RRE Ventures. He has been active within the technology community for over twenty years as a venture capital investor, banker and entrepreneur. While earning his double degree in Computer Science and Business Administration at Antioch College during the early 1980’s, Mr. Robinson worked as a programmer developing email systems for state government, and later founded and was President of IV Systems Inc., a 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.
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 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 twenty-five technology investments, and currently serves as Director of Broadsoft (VOIP networks), Enpirion, Inc. (power systems semiconductors), and many others.
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, and is a member of the Economic Club of New York.
