BLUE STAR INNOVATIONS PARTNER - Key Persons
Head of Commercial Strategy at Storable where he oversaw go-to-market integration and optimization of 12 acquisitions, deployed embedded payments, and achieved a successful recapitalization with EQT
CEO of Melinta Therapeutics, through IPO: NASDAQ (MLNT) CEO of SmileBrands, a Welsh Carson Portfolio Company with over 600MM revenue, through sale to Gryphon Investors Global President of Bausch and Lomb, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, through sale to Valeant Pharmaceuticals for $9.3B Head of Commercial Strategy for Merck Pharmaceuticals Head of Specialty for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Over 25 years experience in Senior Commercial roles Multiple Executive Chairman roles and board seats (both public and private) over the last 10 years "When Rob asked me to come run BSIP after my last CEO role, I was excited to work with a team of talented operators, helping other founders realize the true potential of integrated payments in their companies. Working alongside successful operators instead of investors is exactly what excites me about being at our Firm."
Jerry Jones is referenced herein in his capacity as a founding partner and is not a member of the firm's investment committee.
Built payments P&L at Storable from $2MM to >$30MM EBITDA in 3 years via integrated payments strategy, M&A, and revamped new & cross-sell GTM
Built and scaled the Engineering & Product Organizations from 1 through 150+ FTEs supporting $200MM+ in revenue across 7 products.
Rob is a serial entrepreneur with a track record that includes four exits totaling more than $1.5B, a successful IPO, and running the largest payments business in the world, Chase Merchant Services. Most recently, Rob was the Founder and CEO of Blue Star Sports, the largest and preeminent provider of sports technology globally. In less than a year, Rob completed 20 acquisitions and returned over 3x to all shareholders in a transaction valued in excess of $300M. Prior to Blue Star Sports, Rob founded, built, and exited two payments businesses - Century Payment Advisors and Century Payments to Bain Capital and Worldpay, respectively. Rob began his career practicing law for Morgan, Lewis & Bockius before starting his first company, Link2Gov. After exiting Link2Gov, Rob was EVP of Global Sales for Convergent Group through its IPO and subsequent sale to Schlumberger. He was then recruited to run the payments business for JPMorgan Chase.
Job Titles:
- Partner / CEO of Trintech, PE Backed Global Enterprise SaaS Company, Tripled Revenue to $150MM / Corporate Director, AvidXchange, NASDAQ ( AVDX )
CEO of Trintech, PE backed global enterprise SaaS company, tripled revenue to > $150MM