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Robert Carr is an independent entrepreneur and advisor to Silicon Valley software companies with a passion for leading the creation of innovative products and services. Currently, Robert is CEO and co-founder of www.keepandshare.com, a web 2.0 company providing an integrated suite of group productivity applications. From 1997 through 2003, Robert was Managing Director at Sofinnova Ventures, where he was one of five partners managing $550 million in early stage high tech venture capital funds. Robert is invested in and has served on the board of a variety of software infrastructure companies. Prior to joining Sofinnova, Robert was Vice President of the AutoCAD Market Group at Autodesk, Inc., where he managed a major turn around of the company's flagship product, AutoCAD. In 1987, Robert co-founded the high-profile mobile communications startup GO Corporation, where he led all software development including the ground-breaking PenPoint operating system. He is the co-inventor and holder of two patents on pen-based computing and object-oriented operating systems. Prior to GO, Robert served as Ashton-Tate's chief scientist after they acquired his software startup in 1985, three years after Robert's invention of an integrated PC software program called Framework.Robert is a two-time winner of PC Magazine's Technical Excellence Award for both Framework and PenPoint. In both cases, his products defeated the dominant industry players of the time (Lotus in integrated software when 1-2-3 was dominant; Microsoft in operating systems).He began his career with "the birth of the PC" in and around Xerox PARC and Stanford University, and has been in the PC software business since he joined Xerox PARC in 1978. At Xerox PARC, Robert developed integrated applications software for the Alto (the precursor to the Xerox Star, which in turn was the inspiration for the Macintosh). Robert holds a B.S. and a M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Stanford University. | 