Robert Haddock
Strengths: Information & Technology Industry; Strategic Planning; Entrepreneurship; Marketing
Robert is the founder and chairman of Coosmic Corp., developers of a smart, synaptic web that provides a radically new and intuitive way to access the functions and services most Internet users desire. Robert is an inventor with major patents for consumer and business technologies that have changed history. More than three billion people worldwide now use products and technologies invented by him. He developed the first text browser (1984), the first newsreader (1984), the first commercial concept indexing and search engine (1984), the first smart phone (1983-1991), the first phone with a chip-based Security Identity Module – i.e. SIM card (1987), the first phone with graphical interface (1991), the first web browser in a phone (1993) and the first Voice over IP on a phone (1996). Since 1981 he has focused much of his energy on creating unified environments for delivering content and services online to both PCs and Smart Phones. He previously founded and served as CEO of Global Strategy Partners, where over a 10-year period he advised more than 130 web ventures, media companies and financial institutions in theU.S.andChina. In 1992 Mr. Haddock, founded M-Power Corp. where he created the first Smart Phone with a graphical interface and obtained a major patent for several of his inventions related to smart phones. During this period he consulted extensively with GTE (now Verizon) about a wide range of Web Services for delivery to mobile phones, including GTE’s online yellow pages services (now Verizon’s SmartPages). Earlier he was VP of Product Development and Marketing for Electronic Banking Services at Citicorp where he directed the team that created the first smart phone. Prior to this he created Citicorp’s Global Report, a pioneering online news service founded in 1984.
In the early1980’s he served as Director of Business Development at Ziff Davis Publishing Corp. where he started several profitable online ventures, including Aviation Online and Aerospace Online, and worked on various acquisitions including startup PC Magazine that Ziff later sold for about $500 million. He studied at the NYU Graduate School of Business, majoring in Finance and is the author of several books that have sold some 10 million copies in total.