Daniel N. Robin

Daniel N. Robin is In³ founding partner and managing director. In³ is a private equity placement and venture development firm specializing in "food-friendly bio-renewables," helping to build the bio-renewable economy since 1996. Mr. Robin brings more than 20 years business experience to this work as a business analyst and venture catalyst, with diverse clients in private enterprises, established corporations, professional associations, governments and schools. Prior roles include management and organizational development consultant, coach and trainer.

Mr. Robin serves on the board of the Sustainability Academy as well as several In³-funded ventures, is partner in SustainabilityWorks and co-founder of the Renewable Energy Investor Forum (REIF), a renewables project finance group based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also founding principal of Daniel Robin & Associates, an international management consulting, training and mediation firm established in 1985.

Mr. Robin is adjunct professor of International Business at Fisher Graduate School in Monterey, CA, one of the Top Ten MBA Programs in the Nation for Entrepreneurship (ranked 8th out of more than 700 graduate schools), with formal education and professional experience in high-tech (University of California at Santa Cruz, bachelors in Computer & Information Science), product marketing, and international business (UC Berkeley), Mr. Robin began Integrated Investments as a collaboration between US and German venture capital and technology transfer interests, which led to the current platform for innovative and sustainable "biorenewable" technology commercialization worldwide.

Mr. Robin has published more than 150 articles and papers on a variety of leadership, communication, social sustainability (coaching skills, dealing with conflict), and management issues, and authors a widely-read San Francisco Bay Area business column, "Sustainable Business: A Healthy Workplace" as well as numerous blogs and Ezines.

As recent chair of international biorenewables conferences (Commercializing Bioresins 2007), and through successful client engagements in related cleantech fields, Mr. Robin has gained perspective on the state of this fast-growing industry.

Mr. Robin has also served as a public policy mediator, negotiated resolution of international disputes (Government of Kuwait), moderated and facilitated public debates (panels at the Central Coast Angel Network, Agriculture Innovation Summit in Salinas and the Agriculture Technology Investment Forum), and enjoys a good controversy every now and then.

Education:

   Bachelors in Computer & Information Science, University of California at Santa Cruz (1981); graduate studies in International Business and Quality Management, University of California at Berkeley (1984).

   Communication and Facilitation: Trained and certified in the Syntax of Effective Communication, public speaking, and as a facilitator of Dr. Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

 

   Conflict Resolution: Community Board of San Francisco, psychologist Dr. Arnold Mindell, and U. C. Extension’s certificate program in Alternative Dispute Resolution.

 

   Professional Certification: Certified practitioner and applications trainer of NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP Comprehensive, Colorado); graduate of the Coaches Training Institute of San Francisco; ISO 9000 & ISO 14000 / EMS (University of Caliornia at Berkeley Extension); trained in martial arts (Brazil’s Capoeira).

Areas of Expertise

Recent Clients

Chemcial Fabrics & Film Association
City and County of Santa Cruz, CA
Cities of San Jose, Watsonville, and Palo Alto, CA
Government of Kuwait
Diversey-Lever Corporation
Driscoll's
ExxonMobil Chemical
Hewlett Packard Company
McKee Foods Corporation (Tennessee)
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
myCFO.com
Oak Grove School District (San Jose, CA)
The Redman Foundation (Watsonville, CA)
Save Our Shores (not-for-profit in Santa Cruz, CA)
Seagate Technologies (CA)
Spa Fitness Centers (CA)
Symantec Corporation (Santa Monica, CA)
Santa Cruz County Office of Education
Pacific Gas & Electric (P. G. & E.)
Threshold Enterprises, Ltd. (Scotts Valley, CA)
WISE Solutions, Inc.

For a summary of the projects associated with the above clients, go here

• Tomorrow Matters, 5/6/08 radio interview
• Download 4-1/2 minute video sample, 2.7Mb
• 20-minute webinar "Raising Affinity Capital -- (five common fundraising mistakes and how to prevent them)

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