Niel Robertson

My bio from Newmerix:

Mr. Robertson is a seasoned veteran of venture-backed startups. His in-depth experience is focused on technology companies, where new product research, software development, technical marketing and external evangelism are combined as effective tools for success. Mr. Robertson specializes in the development of enterprise system management, Web-based technologies, distributed computation and delivery, and internet infrastructure.

Mr. Robertson is currently CTO and co-founder of Newmerix, a software company specializing in change management for packaged applications (PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, Siebel). Leading up to the founding of Newmerix, Mr. Robertson was the CTO in Residence at Mobius Venture Capital, as well as a Venture Partner with Fidelity Ventures in Boston.

Prior to his work in venture capital, Mr. Robertson was the VP of Research at Exodus Communications, where he was responsible for building Exodus’ first research group. Mr. Robertson was in charge of all new product and service evaluation as well as the architect for Exodus’ content distribution strategy and streaming media initiative. He was also responsible for liaising with Wall Street and industry analysts.

Exodus acquired Mr. Robertson’s biggest success to date, Service Metrics, in October of 1999. As founder and CTO of Service Metrics, Mr. Robertson developed and delivered the product roadmap and original architecture and interface to the Service Metrics offerings. Service Metrics was a venture backed startup company focused on providing an end user perspective of web site performance. By building and managing a global network of measurement agents, Service Metrics was able to deliver real-time information on expected and actual performance of their customer’s complex web sites and environments. Service Metrics pioneered the Application Performance Management (APM) space which today stands as a known category of public and private companies.

Mr. Robertson has also opened two restaurants in Boulder and Boston, sits on a number of technology company boards, and has broadly invested in technology startups as an angel financer.

Mr. Robertson holds a B.S. in Computer Science from M.I.T.