Robert McKee

Robert McKee is an investment banker with Cypress Associates, a nationally recognized boutique firm.  He has 30 years of experience both on Wall Street and in Austin.  He has also been an entrepreneur and the CEO of a manufacturing company.  He is a founder of the Rice Alliance – Austin Chapter and has been involved in the start-up community in Austin for more than 20 years.  He is also a mentor at the Austin Technology Incubator and SKU, a CPG accelerator. Robert is on the advisory board of Health Discovery Labs and Alt Bionics, both medical device start-ups, and Herdsy and Persistent Biocontrols, two sustainable agriculture companies.  He received his BA from Rice University and an MBA from the Wharton School.