What About Bob?!

“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” ~ Jim Rohn

Bob Stewart is Founder and CEO of VitalLock – The Privacy Company. Stewart has strategically guided business and Internet related code development for Adobe, AgentVI, AVC, Boeing, BT, CBS, CMGI, CNET, CyberMedica, Disney, EMC, ESRIA, Facebook, Fidelity, Gomez, Hyundai, ICST, Intuit, Kodak, Motorola, MyWay, NFL, Ribbit, Seesmic, SearchMe, Twitter, VerifiedPerson, Viximo, VRmedia, Zip2 and others. He is author of the popular Open Systems Development Lifecycle.

Robert E. Stewart Sr.

Bob Stewart served Malcolm Baldridge award winning Motorola’s $1B Internet and Networking Group where, during his tenure there, the head of Motorola Quality named him Internet Chief Technology Officer. While there Bob earned Motorola’s highest information technology ladder rank of Strategic Adviser Technical Analyst. Bob established and directed cross-functional TCS teams to develop and deploy highly secure and federally audited Internet-centric, x509v3 encrypted communications systems. Bob joined Motorola’s Multiservice Networking Divisions as a contractor focused on integrated call center and strategic services marketing support systems and was later hired as the first “webmaster”.

Bob Stewart was Chief Technology Officer for John Sculley’s Verified Person a deep background screening concern located in New York City where he led, reorganized and outsourced development and quality operations. Bob drove the web-service enablement of Verified Person’s multi-terabyte data warehouse service providing an arbitrage effect of efficiencies which catalyzed growth for both customers and channel partners including Taleo and Walmart.

Stewart Family

Bob Stewart was also Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of CyberMedica Stewart was the original Chief Technology Officer and Vice President at CyberMedica before he purchased the company’s intellectual property portfolio and remaining assets in 2002. CyberMedica improved responsible research around the world and participated as standards provider of peer-reviewed infrastructure platforms for technology to deliver secure open-systems for collaborative scientific research for biotechnology and pharmaceutical discoveries worldwide.

Prior to CyberMedica, Bob Stewart was an investment adviser with a number of venture capital firms in North America and Europe. He has also been involved, both as an investment adviser and a transition manager, in substantial M&A activity including a $220M acquisition from BellSouth and a $290M acquisition from Compaq (now HP).

“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.” ~ Albert Einstein

Bob also earned global recognition as Chief Technology Officer for CMGI’s portfolio companies Zip2 and MyWay.com, which was ranked a ‘Top-25 Portal’ during his tenure. Stewart was responsible for all aspects of software and platform development, operations, engineering, research, corporate information technology and product technical delivery for CMGI’s personal portal business units where he managed a worldwide staff of over 180 professionals.

Bob’s entrepreneurial spirit started several technology services companies in the early nineties including VRmedia Internet Publishing Corporation, Maine Multimedia Corporation and Advanced Visual Communications, Inc. Before that he served for several years as the Production Director of then family owned, national magazine American Angler and book publisher, Northland Press, Inc. which he joined shortly after joining the Marine Corps following his completion of studies in Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University of New England.

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

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