

Bob Mannarino
Governance Chair
Bob’s board experience spans more than a dozen public, PE-backed and private company boards. He has served as a board member, CEO, President or COO of companies ranging in size from $1.5B in revenue to startups and has sold several companies for 14X EBITDA. He has served as a board member, CEO or advisor for Clearview Capital portfolio companies and for many other private equity firms.
He is known for his strategic insight, leadership, and entrepreneurial ability to create value.
Bob is currently the Governance Committee Chair for Santa Energy and for NACD CT, serves as a board advisor for BlackOpsPartners (a global risk and cybersecurity firm), and as a founder of a stealth-mode Zero Trust cybersecurity authentication-as-a-service firm.
Bob’s expertise is in cybersecurity, govtech, fintech, HCM and other tech-enabled business services. He started his career at Intel, GE, Citigroup, and ADP developing and introducing new products and services.
He is accredited in Cybersecurity Governance from CERT at Carnegie Mellon, is a contributor to the NACD Private Company Governance report, and has spoken on cybersecurity at ACG, NACD, SBIA and other forums.
He has also served on not-for-profit boards including the Pennsylvania Ballet.
Bob is a graduate of Chicago Booth with an MBA, Beta Gamma Sigma in Finance and Marketing (top 10% of his class). He holds a BS in Computer Science magna cum laude from Union College.