Bob Tinker

Bob Tinker is President and CEO of MobileIron, a company that helps corporate IT departments manage employee smartphones. MobileIron is backed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Storm Ventures.

Before MobileIron, Bob led the Business Development team for Cisco's wireless business units, a combined $1B business. As a member of the executive staff, he was responsible for driving long-term revenue growth and expanding Cisco's wireless initiatives to laptops and smartphones. Before Cisco, Bob was the first business executive at enterprise wireless pioneer Airespace, where he was Vice President of Business Development. Cisco acquired Airespace in 2005. Bob's previous roles include Director of Marketing at Vertical Networks and Vice President at NationsBank, with oversight of IT, sales, product management, and operations.

Bob is an Executive Board Member of the Foundation for the recently opened University of California at Merced, the first major university built in the U.S. in the last 30 years. He is also a member of the Full Circle Fund, a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in partnership with nonprofits to advance the causes of public education, affordable housing, digital inclusion, and sustainable energy in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bob has a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.