Robert M. Fleischman

Rob Fleischman is an Operating Partner of Safar Partners and a successful technology entrepreneur and has deep knowledge in the areas of Internet Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Security, Networking, and Very Large Scale Server Development.
After graduating from MIT (SB in Computer Science, SM in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering), Rob began his career at BBN Labs (where the Internet was invented, in fact, Rob’s first mentor was Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of e-mail).
Mr. Fleischman founded multiple start-ups, and held senior engineering positions at large technology and financial companies (BBN, Fidelity, Highwind, Software.com, Openwave, Sandvine, Xerocole, Akamai, and others).
He holds many patents, invented and helped build news, messaging and DNS technologies that currently process trillions of transactions daily on the Internet.
Mr. Fleischman is currently a valued advisor on the boards of multiple technology companies and leads multiple endowment investment committees.
In addition, Rob is currently a Tiger 21 chair in Boston where he helps UHNW investors, families, and financial advisors discuss investments, family wealth issues, and philanthropy.