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Rob focuses on Sales and Finance and Administration and has extensive experience and passion for building channel-based businesses. Prior to Video Insight, Rob founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer for Emerging, an e-Business professional services firm with offices in Houston, Austin, and San Francisco. Emerging was a leading channel partner of BEA Systems. Emerging was able to grow its revenues from zero to over $13 million in one calendar year. In 1998 Rob co- founded Ashford.com, the leading Internet retailer of luxury and premium personal accessories. Ashford.com completed an initial public offering in September of 1999 lead by Goldman Sachs & Co. Shaw served as Chairman of the Board for Ashford.com from its inception until it was acquired by GSI Commerce in March 2002. In 1989, Mr. Shaw founded Synergy Development Corporation and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer until the successful sale of the company to E-partners. Synergy was regarded as one of the worlds largest and most successful channel partners for Great Plains Software. Great Plains was a channel-only ERP software company that was sold to Microsoft in 2000. Before founding Synergy, Shaw served as the Vice President of Sales and Finance for Style Ware, Inc., an award-winning software development company for the Apple II and Macintosh platforms. At a very young age, Rob and his two partners were able to grow their business from a college dormitory to a 55 person, industry-leading company that was sold to Apple Computer less than 3 years after being formed. Rob was selected as Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Emerging.com in 2000, selected by Texas E-com as a Top Ten award winner for the Year in 2000, currently serves on two other software industry boards of directors and graduated from the University of St. Thomas in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. | 