Robert Schuham, Angel Investor

Rob is a successful entrepreneur who brings nearly three decades of organizational transformation, leadership development, branding and experiential design to bear. He is an early-stage venture capitalist, angel investor and advisor to dozens of startups and their leaders. Rob is also co-founder of COMMON, a global community and design accelerator for socially responsible organizations, where he co-created The COMMON MBA (Maniacal Business Attack) to help leaders of companies and nonprofits align to create new ventures, products and services. Rob was most recently Executive Director for The Consilience Project, a nonprofit think tank that publishes novel research at the leading edges of global risk mitigation, governance design and culture. Rob was also co-founder of Undercurrent, an award-winning organizational design and transformation consultancy that reimagined ways of working and brought unique digital and innovation techniques and experiments to bear for the largest corporations in the world. He has keynoted at many high-profile gatherings and conferences on climate change, social impact and media. Rob has also worked on cultural narratives and storytelling in the climate and social impact spaces for over 15 years, having created or co-created numerous global media platforms for The Climate Reality Project and other positive-impact causes and brands. He also founded and scaled award-winning experiential design agency, Action Marketing that, when sold, was creatively concepting and producing over 2,000 events a year. Prior to this, Rob was Marketing Director at Schwinn Bicycle Company, a Supervisor and Strategist at Chiat/Day Advertising and a Managing Director at Warren Miller Films.