Bob O'Brien is a Managing Director of CID Capital. He has over 20 years of senior executive experience in the high technology industry, 15 of them in Silicon Valley. His areas of expertise include software, semiconductors, imaging and video display, and related hardware technology.

Bob currently serves on the boards of: Bridge Semiconductor, a fabless, mixed-signal semiconductor company; e4e, Inc., a provider of business solutions in three vertical markets - high technology, consumer finance and healthcare; Exacq Technologies, a leading designer and manufacturer of unique board-level products for the Security & Surveillance markets; Lamina Lighting, a market leader in the development and production of super-bright LED arrays; Pinstripe, Inc., a leading provider of recruitment process outsourcing services; RedSky Technologies, a leading provider of emergency response crisis solutions; and SmartSignal Corporation, a developer of monitoring technology that is used to detect early warning indications of failure in products such as aircraft engines and combustion turbines.

Bob has previously served on the boards of Hypernex, Inc., a company that developed a combination hardware/software technology platform for semiconductor manufacturers; Maxim IT, a software company featuring a unique digital asset retrieval and integration solution for engineering and manufacturing markets; Midi, Inc., the leading provider of high-impact ethics and compliance learning solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies; Radiate, a developer of data mining software; Shakti Systems, a developer of integrated circuits for power management applications; and was an observer on the board of SportsHuddle, a website featuring daily highlights and related information concerning sporting events in high schools.

Bob is active in the venture community and has served on several conference committees, participated as a judge in many business plan competitions and selection committees, and served as a moderator or panel member at many venture-related events. He is also active in several University technology transfer and technology commercialization organizations and served for three years on the Board of Advisors at the Indiana University Kelly School of Business Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. It is through activities such as these that he serves to mentor early stage entrepreneurs and offer them information on successfully presenting their vision for funding and raising the capital necessary to grow their businesses.

Prior to joining CID Capital in 2000, Bob served in an executive capacity with four venture-backed start-ups: CEO of InfoChip Systems, Senior Vice President of ULSI Systems, and executive management for Tecmar and Softsmith Corp. He also served as Vice President/General Manager for Western Digital Corporation and Senior Vice President for Truevision/RasterOps Corporation. In addition, Bob was a Partner in the merchant banking firm, Union Atlantic, where he focused on opportunities in the technology sector.

Bob holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Findlay and is a graduate of the Technology Executive Program at Stanford University.