Profile
Robert is Highspot’s co-founder and CEO, leading its mission to transform the way millions of people work. Prior to founding Highspot in 2012, Robert spent more than 15 years as Corporate Vice President of the Server and Tools Division at Microsoft. A veteran entrepreneur, he also co-founded Colusa, a cross-language virtual machine that was acquired by Microsoft in 1996.
Reviews
First of all, Robert’s is one of the most intelligent people I’ve been lucky enough to work with. He consistently is thinking of the bigger picture and has the ability to think what is happening now, compared where our company needs to be. His ability to forecast the industry and share larger ideas with the company is impressive. The energy Robert brings to company meetings is professional, energetic, transparent and confident. Along with the company meetings Robert is able to continuously remind the company of collective goals and updates where we are so we are all focused on accomplishing the bigger goal.
Robert is an incredible leader who challenges the people around him to think hard and do their best work. He leads by example and would never ask an employee to do something that he wouldn’t get in the dirt and do himself. From developers and coding the product, to marketing, sales and finance, Robert can execute strategy as well as he sets the vision for our company.
Robert’s strengths are many, but empowering his team to excel is one of his biggest. He is very much a leave your ego at the door leader and gets pleasure from collaborating, learning and seeing people that work at Highspot do well. He always wants to learn and is never complacent about anything. By far the best leader I have ever worked for.
I’ve been an intern at Highspot for about 9 months now. As an intern, approaching a CEO is daunting – but this has never been the case for Robert. He is so open, friendly, and present that I didn’t even know he was our CEO for my first week on the job.
Robert is an excellent communicator. He makes sure everyone on the team knows where we are and where we are headed as a company. That makes sure everyone is on the same page and we can move forward effectively and efficiently as a company.
Robert is great at maintaining transparency across our organization. He hosts our weekly, company wide lunches where we discuss popular topics, Robert shares weekly news and answers any questions our company has.
Genuinely cares about everyone that he is spending time with. has a great vision for our company and knows how to get buy in from employees. Truly believes in those around him! Great leader!
Creating a strong and compelling vision for the company. Extremely intelligent and strategic decision maker. Leads with confidence and able to captivate a successful culture.
Robert is such an incredible leader and mentor to look up to. He treats his colleagues and employees with the utmost respect, trust, and support in everything that he does.
Highly intelligent with an engineering and marketing background, Robert can easily and seamlessly transition between functions to keep the company operating in alignment.
Scaling company while maintaining core company values. Hiring on a leadership team that fits company culture & is able to spread the culture/growth
Always comes to work with a positive attitude, hosts our weekly Friday company all-hands sessions and is extremely available for any and all needs
Provides a great direction for people and the organization, truly cares about the well being of his employees, takes the time to listen and act.
Robert is always accessible and a great leader. He’s focused not only on the product, but also on customer and employee satisfaction.
Has valuable expertise across every function of the company. Excellent balance of immediate results + long term scalable process.
Connecting with every department in the company. Always takes time to connect with individual employees 1-on-1 and will lend a hand!
Open to ideas, great interaction with all employees, good understanding of underlying technology, great intuition for the market
Experienced business leader and veteran with experience that spans startup to scale and engineering to go-to-market strategy.
Robert is an inspirational, approachable, and effective leader and innovator who elicits the best of everyone around him.
Talks the talk & walks the walk! Goes out of his way to get to know each employee. Always positive and approachable!
Intelligence, Leadership, Approachability, Smart / Responsible approach to scaling the organization, Energy, Empathy
Robert is highly motivating, friendly and knowledgable about the SaaS industry and where he wants to take Highspot.
Robert is willing to work right along side you to ensure quality and direction is understood and accomplished
Innovative, great leader, extremely smart, listens to his employees, cares about the culture of the company
Market analysis and strategic decision-making. He understands the chess-game and the right moves to make.