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Search for: Search Button Robert F. Smith American investor, inventor, engineer, philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, which is focused on exclusively investing in enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses.
Robert F. Smith was born to two working-class parents in a predominantly Black, middle-class neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. From an early age, his parents stressed the importance of giving back and supporting his community. He first learned that everyone had a role to play in creating a better world from watching his parents, who donated their limited resources to charities like United Negro College Fund (UNCF) on an ongoing basis, no matter what was happening in their personal lives.
In 1985, Smith earned a degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University . After graduating, he began working in the engineering industry in applied research and development and received two U.S. and two European patents and numerous awards. He graduated with honors from Columbia Business School in 1994 and entered investment banking in mergers and acquisitions for Goldman Sachs in New York City and later San Francisco. To empower technology companies in the enterprise software market, Smith launched
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