Robert Robinson, Ph.D.

Robert (Rob) Robinson is Managing Partner of Kolohala Ventures, a Honolulu-based private equity firm with a proven commitment to investing in renewable energy in Hawaii.  Robert is the co-author of Angel Investing:  Matching Startup Funds with Startup Companies (2000, Jossey-Bass). In 2002 he founded UH Angels, a Hawaii-based angel investor network which invests in technology startup firms, and which has helped over 40 firms get started in the state.  He is on the board of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association, the Hawaii Science and Technology Council, Hawaii Biotech, and ClearFuels. He is also a professor of management at the University of Hawaii’s Shidler School of Business.  Prior to coming to Hawaii, Robert obtained his Ph.D. at Stanford University, and was a professor at the Harvard Business School in Boston for 10 years. Robert was born and raised in Durban, South Africa.