Robb Lippitt is is Interim Chief Operating Officer at Leading Edge. He is a serial entrepreneur, having successfully led and grown multiple businesses throughout his (ongoing) career. Robb most recently served as COO of Clarity Voice, a cloud phone company which ensures your business will never miss a call (even the annoying ones). Before that Robb was COO of High Level Marketing, a digital marketing agency which, contrary to popular opinion, believes more traffic is a good thing and before that CEO of Revolution Dancewear, a private equity backed manufacturer and distributor of dancewear. Robb is also the Founder of Secret Sauce Capital, an early stage venture capital and consulting company.
Robb also founded, consulted with, and otherwise annoyed a variety of other start-ups after finishing his 6+ year learning and growth opportunity as the COO/General Counsel of ePrize (now called Merkle). Pretty much everyone told Robb that leaving his business law partnership (after 7 years of practice), to go into an Internet start-up in 2000 was crazy. While they were probably right, Robb couldn’t resist the lure of giving away lots of free stuff to strangers. Robb also serves on the Boards of a variety of private companies which alternately welcome and dread his input, depending on the day.
Robb has been inexplicably tolerated by his endlessly patient and saint-like wife Debbie for 34 years, 30 of them in marriage. He is blessed by two daughters, Molly (27) and Eryn (24), both of whom are thankfully shorter than he is and far better looking. Robb is a zealous alumnus of The University of Michigan (B.A. 1990) and also a very proud graduate of the Wayne State University Law School (J.D. 1993).
Robb has been involved in far too many communal committees and activities to list (or that make sense to any rational person), and is the immediate past Board Chair of Repair the World, which mobilizes Jews and their communities to take action to pursue a just world, igniting a lifelong commitment to service. Robb also served as an Executive Board Member of the Fresh Air Society, a Federation agency dedicated to providing a Jewish camping experience to every child who wants one (and even some that don’t but get forced by their parents to go), Treasurer of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Member of the Jewish Federation of North America’s Executive Committee and Board of Governors, and Co-Chair for Jewish Federation of North America’s National Young Leadership. Robb has been required in the past to compile a complete list of his charitable activities (no, that wasn’t anywhere near a complete list), so it is available upon request to those wishing to cure insomnia.
Robb loves to travel as often as possible to far-flung corners of the world in search of ever more exotic foods to eat (and to raise money), loves to cook, play pickleball when his balky calves permit, runs a whiskey club, can recite The Princess Bride by heart, and blogs from time-to-time when something bothers him so much he can’t help himself. He sleeps little.