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Robert D. Rodriguez is the Chairman & Founder of SINET and a Venture Partner at SYN Ventures. SINET accelerates investments and innovation of early-stage, emerging growth, and publicly traded cybersecurity companies into global marketplaces by connecting them to industry and government Chief Information Security Officers, risk executives, venture capitalists, and private equity firms. SINET brings together the world’s highest level of executive cybersecurity professionals through workshops, conferences, public-private partnership dinners, and virtually through SINETConnect, an invitation–only, highly curated platform that connects investors, buyers and sellers. SYN Ventures invests in disruptive, transformational early-stage cybersecurity and AI solutions whose objectives are to reduce technology risk to protect our nation’s critical infrastructures. SYN’s primary investments are Seed, Series A and occasional B rounds. Previously, Robert served 22 years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, where he held numerous executive leadership positions within the Presidential Protection Detail, Protective Intelligence, Inspection, Criminal Investigation Division, and the Counter Assault Team (CAT). His executive protection experience spanned 10 years at the White House serving Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, and numerous Heads of State. He serves on numerous cybersecurity advisory boards and boards of directors, and has been called upon to advise private industry and federal governments as they build private sector outreach initiatives with corporations and the entrepreneurial and venture capital communities. In December of 2024, he was inducted into the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame for his numerous contributions towards the advancement of innovation and his support of public-private partnerships.
Robert D. Rodriguez is the Chairman & Founder of SINET www.security-innovation.org and a Venture Partner at SYN Ventures https://www.synventures.com SINET is a purpose driven community focused on the advancement of innovation and the enablement of global collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats. SINET is a “Super Connector” within the ecosystem of the entrepreneur; bringing together innovators with executives from private industry, venture capital, investment banking, system integration, policy, legal, academia and the science communities as well as the Federal Government’s civilian, military and intelligence agencies. SINET hosts trusted Summits, Workshops and Public Private Partnership Dinners where the business of Cyber takes place at the highest executive levels; Paris, Singapore, Toronto, Sydney, Silicon Valley, Scottsdale, London, Tokyo, Washington, D.C. and New York City. Since 2001 Mr. Rodriguez has advised and coordinated the public - private sector outreach for The Department of Homeland Security, SRI International, Stanford University, United Kingdom Government; Cabinet and Digital Culture, Media and Sport Department, Australian Government DATA 61 & AustCyber, UNC- Charlotte, The Department of Defense, United States Postal Service and participated as a member of the US Air Force Cybersecurity Advisory Board. Previously, he served 22 years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service where he held a number of executive leadership positions within the Presidential Protection, Protective Intelligence, Inspection and Criminal Investigation Divisions and the Counter Assault Team. His executive protection experience spanned 10 years at the White House serving Presidents Ronald W. Reagan, George H. Bush, William J. Clinton and numerous Heads of State. He serves on numerous Cybersecurity Advisory Boards and advises various governments on their private sector outreach strategies.