Rob Adams is a venture industry executive with more than 17 years of broad operational and financial experience; including business strategy development and implementation, financial analysis and modeling, management development, and business positioning. He is a founding partner of NextStage Capital, L.P., a mid-Atlantic seed and early stage venture capital fund.

Prior to joining his partners at NextStage, Rob served six years as Principal and Vice President of Safeguard Scientifics. There, he was instrumental in the development of numerous technology companies, from early stage through public entity. As a part of that role, he was chartered with sourcing, structuring, and negotiating greater than $100 million in investments for Safeguard's portfolio and $380 million in mergers, acquisitions and exits. He designed and executed venture investment strategies for portfolio companies including PacWest Telecomm ($100 million IPO), Extant ($200 million acquisition by Dynegy), and ThinAirApps ($20 million acquisition by Palm).