Rob Eldridge
Investor at Market Wagon
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
2018 - Current
Early-stage investment firm partnering with builders of disruptive technologies.
Tapas Capital is an emerging early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the developers of disruptive technologies.
Board Member and Investor
2020
Market Wagon is North America's largest farm to consumer marketplace and enables local food producers to thrive in their local and regional markets.
Market Wagon is an e-commerce and logistics tech platform for online farmer's markets.
Raised $14,052,911.00 from Kapital Partners, Hyde Park Venture Partners, HPA (Hyde Park Angels) and Impact Engine.
Board Advisor and Investor
2021 - 2024
Avocor is a global leader in collaborative display solutions. Acquired by AUO Display Plus in August 2024.
Advisor
2020 - 2022
Photon Commerce is the AI platform for fintech, invoices, and payments.
Photon Commerce provides white-labeled multi-layered AI-as-a-Service to B2B SaaS providers
Vice President, Product Management - Fulfillment by Amazon
2014 - 2015
Responsible for a portfolio of supply chain-related products used by Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) Sellers. Product teams include: Shipment Creation and Inbound Workflows, Inventory Management, Product Quality, Returns and Dispositions, Selection Expansion, and User Experience/Design. Additionally, managed operations-focused teams in the Seller Reimbursement and Contact Reduction space.
CFO, Asia and Emerging Markets
2011 - 2014
CFO of Amazon’s businesses in China, Japan and India which generated more than $7.6B in net sales in 2013. Overall responsibility for the financial performance and controllership in the Asian geographies, with a primary focus of building a differentiated and sustainable customer experience.
Vice President, Investor Relations
2008 - 2011
Responsible for communicating all company-related information to Wall Street including: quarterly earnings releases and guidance, annual reports including shareholder letter, investor presentations, annual shareholder meeting, and answering day-to-day questions. Independently conduct non-deal roadshows; attend analyst conferences; host investor/analyst visits. Design target investor and analyst strategy. Create compliant communication plan and presentations.
Vice President, Technology Finance
2007 - 2008
VP Finance of the eCommerce Platform Group. Responsible for financial planning and analysis, budget development, capital spending, metric creation and reporting, and general controllership across a large and diverse set of engineering and development organizations.
Director, Technology Finance
2003 - 2007
Notable projects included: Part of the team that established the AWS business; implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture across AMZN services, including successfully budgeting and forecasting through a complex period of growth; identifying product opportunities and staffing teams to address the growth challenges; and acquiring 250K sq. ft of incremental datacenter capacity and project managing the build-outs. Also, managed global procurement and asset management, focused on delivering cost-out and operations support to the Technology business unit as well as the broader internal customer base of Amazon.com.
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
Principal
1998 - 2003
Originated, lead and executed a variety of advisory engagements, including M&A, private placements, divestitures, recapitalizations and fairness opinions. Completed 16 transactions in the semiconductor, software and media industries representing more than $2 billion in total consideration.
Intern
1997 - 1998
Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.