| Summary: | Investment chief executive Robert F. Smith was born on December 1, 1962 in Denver, Colorado. Smith graduated from Denver East High School in 1981, earned his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1986, and his M.B.A. degree from Columbia Business School in 1994. Upon graduation, Smith began working for Goldman Sachs Investment Banking division as a vice president, co-head of enterprise systems and storage sector, and business unit manager for the firm's mergers and acquisitions group. He left to found his own company, Vista Equity Partners LLC, in 2000, and served on the boards of Vista Equity Partner's portfolio companies. In 2010, he founded a national philanthropic effort called Project Realize. Smith's awards include the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Robert Toigo Foundation, and the Ripple of Hope Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.
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