Three Decades of Operating and Leadership Experience — including growth strategy, M&A, diligence, business transformation, and finance — helping investors, executives, and boards build more competitive companies.

Rob earned his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a four-year varsity baseball player, a two-time All-Ivy selection, and a member of an Ivy League Championship team that competed in the College World Series Midwest Regional. He was later inducted into the Penn Baseball Hall of Fame.

Rob served as President of Factory Athletics — home to Baseball Factory and Softball Factory — and built it over nearly three decades into the national market leader in sports talent development, before selling the business to Unrivaled Sports in 2023. Under his leadership the company grew to more than 2,000 employees and contractors, ran over 1,000 events a year in 150 cities, and helped develop more than 600 future MLB players.

He went on to serve as COO and Chief Business Officer of Imre, an award-winning, private-equity-backed marketing and healthcare communications agency, where he led a multi-year transformation of the agency into a pharma-focused agency of record — overseeing Finance, HR, IT, Operations, Editorial, Resourcing, and Project Management. As part of that transformation, he modernized the agency's systems, streamlined its workflows, and became a certified Agile Scrum Master along the way. He combined agile workflow, AI adoption and integration, data integration, and KPI measurement to drive measurable time and cost savings across the agency, and worked closely with key team members to explore how custom AI agents could improve and expand client delivery. He also helped lead the effort to build a custom solution for brand AI visibility, developed in partnership with established market leaders. Throughout, he kept human inclusion and coaching at the center of that work, so the technology served the people using it rather than the other way around. That work sits alongside his sports and events background and gives him direct operating experience in healthcare and life sciences, and in marketing and creative agencies, in addition to professional services and sports and events organizations.

Rob is also active in YPO (Young Presidents' Organization), where he has served his chapter as Chapter Chair, Strategic Planning Officer, and Treasurer. The strategic planning process he built became a blueprint adopted by other chapters, and in his year as Chapter Chair, his leadership helped the chapter win Best Large Chapter of the Northeast Region. He now operates RAN Consulting, advising private equity firms, operators, and boards on strategy, diligence, growth, business transformation, finance and operations, and other disciplines. His experience spans sports and events, healthcare and life sciences, agencies and marketing, professional services, and AI-enabled businesses.