RobFinn

Principal

Office Location:
Lawrenceville, NJ
Email:
rfinn@edisonventures.com
Phone:
609-873-9243
“Long magic, short gravity...the great companies are not built, but rather willed into existence.”

Actively pursuing improved personal impact on the team is something Rob is all too familiar with, as he has earned a Six Sigma Green Belt—a certification of quality improvement. 

For his role with the analysis team, Rob utilizes the depth of his experience to effectively evaluate investment opportunities, assessing development efforts and researching markets. 

Rob is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to technology. An MIT grad, he has progressed through his career developing cutting-edge processes.

As part of the analysis team, Rob focuses on evaluating Edison's investment opportunities. His activities include conducting financial analyses, assessing technologies and development efforts, interviewing references, and researching markets for companies under evaluation. 

Rob has followed and sourced hundreds of opportunities for Edison, including investments in Blue Cod, Neat Company, RewardsNOW, SellMyTimeShareNOW, and Sonicbids. 

Prior Experience

Rob was previously with GTSI, a government value added reseller. He worked in the Financial Planning & Analysis and Strategic Pricing teams, but spent most of his time working in a three-person Six Sigma department. He improved processes in accounting, contracting, order fulfillment, quoting, sales, inventory, product management, marketing, purchasing, and IT. He was also responsible for corporate wide process changes for a $10M PeopleSoft deployment. Rob has held various roles at Kozmo.com, Leerink Swann Retail Brokerage group and MIT's Laboratory of Financial Engineering.

Other Investment Experience

Blue Cod; CheckPointHR; FolloDynamix; Health Market Science; iContracts; IPP; LogicTree; Neat Receipts; NSI; Regent; SANpulse; SellMyTimeShareNOW; Sonicbids 

Education

BS, Management Science (Finance, Operations Research, and Marketing), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

My entrepreneurial tendencies are nature and nurture. My parents are both entrepreneurs. I was fortunate to have some responsibilities at a young age, which taught me to appreciate the camaraderie of a small team and the growth that comes from working on something larger than yourself. My mentor was the CEO at my first employer; I had opportunities to affect change in a $1B organization, but it was not on his coat tail which taught me not to mistake the clear view for a short distance.