Robbie Hardy
Consultant
Kauffman Foundation
 
Speaker
Women's Forum
Judge
Business Plan Competition
Robbie Hardy is the founder and managing partner of Silk Road Partners; a “Mentor Capital “ firm providing guidance to early stage companies and exit strategies for later stage companies. Hardy is a strategic consultant to the Kauffman Foundations’ FastTrac program and also the founder and chairman of a Million Dreams Across America a nonprofit national movement to ignite entrepreneurism.

Robbie has worked in all aspects of a business from being an executive with 25+ years of experience working Fortune 500 clients to starting and running and exiting several technology companies. She is the Founding Chairman of the Atlantis Group a seed stage capital fund specializing in tech, biotech and life sciences in the RTP region of North Carolina. She is able to relate to all sides of the small and large business equation.

Hardy founded and was CEO of CI Technologies a software company in 1992 and sold it to Seagate in 1995. Prior to CI Technologies, Hardy was a Vice President with American Management Systems (AMS) in Fairfax Virginia. Prior to AMS Hardy was MIS director of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.