Robert is an entrepreneur specialising in early stage technology companies. He is the Chairman of Audio Analytic Ltd, an audio processing company; a director of Dexela Ltd, a medical image processing company; director of N++, a software company; and a board member of East of England Development Agency and Cambridge Angels.

He was the Chairman of Green Parrot Pictures Ltd, a video processing company sold to Google in 2011; and a non-executive director of Im-Sense Ltd, an image processing company sold to a major US technology company in 2010.

He was one of the two co-founders of innovative Cambridge semiconductor company Alphamosaic. Its multimedia products achieved sales of more than 25 million devices worldwide and can be found in mobile phones and media players. It was acquired by Broadcom Corporation, where Robert held senior positions until leaving for the next venture in 2007.

Robert graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in Electrical and Information Sciences and gained a PhD in video processing at Cambridge University Engineering Department. He has also published more than 15 patents. He lives in Cambridge.

Further details at http://www.robertswann.com/