Hi, I'm Rob &
I ♥ to build the future

Hi, I'm Rob &
I ♥ to build the future

CEO @ Innerview / 📱🫀 first hire & VP for cofounder of Siri / early Viv.ai

CEO @ Fastlane AI / 📱🫀 first hire &
VP for cofounder of Siri / early Viv.ai

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Why you should work with me

Why you should

work with me

  • Mark Mozolewski

    AI/ML Riva & Viv

    Rob is a true multidisciplinary leader who builds exceptional teams, products, and companies.


    He invests in both the processes needed to build great teams and in people individually. Rob's technical and business acumen along with his humanity makes everyone who works with him want to invest in what he is building.

  • Adam Cheyer

    Cofounder of Siri

    Rob Phillips is a fantastic person to work with and a world class developer.


    He sweats the details, cares enormously about the user experience in an empathetic way, and writes well-tested code that delivers.


    I highly recommend him and would jump at the opportunity to work with him again.

  • Charlotte Sperling

    UX/UI Design Riva

    Rob is the best manager I’ve ever had and one of the best people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing.


    It’s super rare to meet someone who is not only ridiculously great at what they do (orchestrator, product thinker, eng. extraordinaire), but also a genuinely good person and a joy to do daily life alongside.

  • Philipp Berner

    CTO Keepsafe

    Rob is a great engineer with good product sense. But even more outstanding is his ability to maintain overview of what is happening, communicate effectively with the team and drive results.


    I have not met someone who can articulate feedback as well as Rob. He tries to improve the entire org and offers his help along the way.

  • Scott Sperling

    Dir. of Eng. Riva

    Rob built the product, design, and engineering teams from scratch at Riva and has also been the #1 culture setter for the team by modeling collaboration and ensuring we stay mission-focused.


    Rob is respected, liked, and accessible by all people in the company. People enjoy his leadership, respect his decisions, and value his input, even when they disagree with him.

  • Daniel Shteremberg

    VP Eng. Switchboard

    Rob is truly one of the strongest engineers I've ever worked with. With Rob, not only do you get a superb engineer, but he delves deep into the product itself.


    I'd consider Rob to be more of a PM/Designer/Engineer because he really has all skillsets. His level of empathy towards users is hard to find. He is also supremely kind.

  • Stephanie Heath

    Founder Soulwork

    Rob was probably the most influential person at Keepsafe and for good reason. He seemed to be everywhere. Always assisting. Always providing value.


    If there ever was such a 'thing' as a 1%'er employee - he would be it. You don't come across them often, if ever. He's worth his weight in gold. Make this man an offer. You need him.

  • Tim Eller

    Data Science Uber & Turo

    Rob has been my most favorite PM to work with ever! Rob's real talent is recognizing team abilities & organizing them to:


    a) continue to do what they do best;

    b) are in a position to learn from their peers (largely from Rob himself);

    c) have the freedom to make mistakes and learn from them; and

    d) are happy.

  • Mark Mozolewski

    AI/ML Riva & Viv

    Rob is a true multidisciplinary leader who builds exceptional teams, products, and companies.


    He invests in both the processes needed to build great teams and in people individually. Rob's technical and business acumen along with his humanity makes everyone who works with him want to invest in what he is building.

  • Adam Cheyer

    Cofounder of Siri

    Rob Phillips is a fantastic person to work with and a world class developer.


    He sweats the details, cares enormously about the user experience in an empathetic way, and writes well-tested code that delivers.


    I highly recommend him and would jump at the opportunity to work with him again.

  • Charlotte Sperling

    UX/UI Design Riva

    Rob is the best manager I’ve ever had and one of the best people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing.


    It’s super rare to meet someone who is not only ridiculously great at what they do (orchestrator, product thinker, eng. extraordinaire), but also a genuinely good person and a joy to do daily life alongside.

  • Philipp Berner

    CTO Keepsafe

    Rob is a great engineer with good product sense. But even more outstanding is his ability to maintain overview of what is happening, communicate effectively with the team and drive results.


    I have not met someone who can articulate feedback as well as Rob. He tries to improve the entire org and offers his help along the way.

  • Scott Sperling

    Dir. of Eng. Riva

    Rob built the product, design, and engineering teams from scratch at Riva and has also been the #1 culture setter for the team by modeling collaboration and ensuring we stay mission-focused.


    Rob is respected, liked, and accessible by all people in the company. People enjoy his leadership, respect his decisions, and value his input, even when they disagree with him.

  • Daniel Shteremberg

    VP Eng. Switchboard

    Rob is truly one of the strongest engineers I've ever worked with. With Rob, not only do you get a superb engineer, but he delves deep into the product itself.


    I'd consider Rob to be more of a PM/Designer/Engineer because he really has all skillsets. His level of empathy towards users is hard to find. He is also supremely kind.

  • Stephanie Heath

    Founder Soulwork

    Rob was probably the most influential person at Keepsafe and for good reason. He seemed to be everywhere. Always assisting. Always providing value.


    If there ever was such a 'thing' as a 1%'er employee - he would be it. You don't come across them often, if ever. He's worth his weight in gold. Make this man an offer. You need him.

  • Tim Eller

    Data Science Uber & Turo

    Rob has been my most favorite PM to work with ever! Rob's real talent is recognizing team abilities & organizing them to:


    a) continue to do what they do best;

    b) are in a position to learn from their peers (largely from Rob himself);

    c) have the freedom to make mistakes and learn from them; and

    d) are happy.

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Just a few of my interests

AI / ML

Automation

Creators

Productivity

Finance

Future of
work

Companies I've helped build

Innerview

Riva

Viv (acq)

Keepsafe

Luxe (acq)

Venice

ChefBrain

Desiderata
(acq)

Currently:

  • Building Innerview — helping companies 10x their customer insights without 10x'ing their workload.


Previously:

  • As first hire for cofounder of Siri, I ran Riva (product, engineering, regulatory, security) from day one as a remote org. Within 3 months we had a blood pressure sensor prototype. Within 12 months we had secure infra and apps / HIPAA compliance, patient & ML training app, clinical care team of pharmacists & cardiologists, and web app for the care team to manage patients.


  • I helped orchestrate a world-class engineering team to solve the world’s largest health problem, with truly amazing sensor and patient management technology. Our work encompassed on-device ML, GPU-based transforms, digital signal processing, and lots of other fun technology!

A few things I've designed

A few things I've designed

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A few of my photos

I've traveled the world twice (next time on a catamaran), swam with sea lions in the Galapagos Islands, lived with a family and studied Spanish in Costa Rica for 5 weeks, backpacked across Europe, dove with great white sharks in South Africa, saw the pyramids, spent the night in the middle of the Sahara desert, went on a safari in Kenya and saw a lion hunting it's prey, went paragliding over the Swiss Alps, pet huge tigers and rode giant elephants in Thailand, drove more than 2,700 miles through New Zealand while living in a campervan, and learned French and fell in love in Montréal.