Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Robert J. Robinson co-founded Kolohala in 2006. Dr. Robinson is the founder of Hawaii's angel investor network, the Hawaii Angels. He is the co-author of Angel Investing: Matching Startup Funds with Startup Companies, published in 2000, and was a charter member of the Angel Capital Association. Dr. Robinson is an award-winning author on business negotiation and conflict management, and has over 20 years of experience in coaching companies in valuation and other negotiations. Dr. Robinson earned a B.Commerce in 1983, a BA in 1984, and an MA in 1987 in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa; and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1991. Dr. Robinson spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard Business School, and
was recruited in 2002 to the University of Hawaii as the Barry and Virginia
Weinman Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and E-Business as well
as the executive director of the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship
and E-Business (PACE2).