Robert is Chief Commercial Officer at Livebookings, a venture-backed marketing and technology provider for the restaurant sector. He is responsible for the company’s global consumer operations. Prior to that, Robert was a Principal in Google’s New Business Development team, focusing on new product incubation and early stage partnerships. He was formerly Head of Commerce Partnerships for EMEA, where his responsibilities included Product Search and Google Checkout. Before joining Google in 2006, Robert was COO of Credit Market Analysis Limited (now part of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange), a company he co-founded in 2001, which has become the leading provider of intra-day credit derivative data systems and services to the financial markets. Robert began his career as a barrister in London. He has degrees from Oxford and Cambridge.