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Bob Rees is an experienced venture capitalist with a 20-year track record of forming, incubating, funding, and growing successful young companies. His background also includes marketing, sales, and strategic planning positions with two Fortune 500 companies (Mobil and Tenneco). As a Special Limited Partner of Woodside Fund from 1993 to 1999, Rees built a successful investment record. Rees and three of his Woodside Fund partners left the firm in 1999 to form Access Venture Partners. As a Managing Director of Access Venture Partners until 2004, Rees sourced technology deals in Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma and syndicated these deals with top-tier venture capitalists in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Prior to his venture roles at Woodside Fund and Access Venture Partners, Rees led the successful diversification of Rees/Source Ventures, Inc., a family-owned oil and gas business, through creation of a venture capital investment program. In 1987, he launched the Oklahoma City Innovation Center as Oklahoma's first privately run business incubator. He also played an active role in helping the state develop its own entrepreneurial and venture capital initiatives, which culminated in the founding of the Oklahoma Capital Investment Board (OCIB) and Oklahoma Technology Commercialization Center (OTCC). Rees is a board member of two Oklahoma companies originally incubated by the Oklahoma City Innovation Center. | 