Rob Rodin

Rob Rodin is the Chairman and CEO of RDN Group; Strategic investor / advisor and manager: focused on a number of portfolio companies for several venture capital and private equity funds. Special focus on corporate transitions, customer interface, sales and marketing, distribution, supply chain management and technology strategies. Additionally, he serves as Vice Chairman, Director and Chairman of the Investment Committee of CommerceNet which researches and funds open platform, interoperable business services to advance commerce. Rodin also serves as a Strategic Advisor to Riordan, Lewis and Haden (RLH Equity Partners).

Mr. Rodin served for over 10 years as CEO and President of Marshall Industries (NYSE: MI) a global, industrial, electronics distributor and supply chain management company with approximately $2 billion in sales. The company managed more than 2500 employees, 500 suppliers, 300,000 part numbers, and 77,000 customers in 36 countries. Customers and suppliers included Intel, General Electric, AT+T, Motorola, IBM, Toshiba, and Siemens. Quality and customer demands required compliance with many of the following disciplines: Six Sigma, ISO 900X, Malcolm Baldridge, TQM, and Deming’s Total Quality System.

At Marshall Industries, Mr. Rodin engineered the reinvention of the company, turning a conventionally successful $500 million distributor into a web enabled $2 billion global competitor. He lead the enterprise design which created a complete transformation of the company’s organizational structure and entire IT platform (and interface modules) which included complete development and implementation of the following systems: ERP, MRP, forecast and demand planning, CRM (customer relationship management), SRM (supplier relationship management), ERM (employee relationship management) and an ASRS (automated storage retrieval warehouse system). All of these solutions were required to interface seamlessly with the company’s global customer base and Marshall’s joint venture partners (in 36 countries in Europe and Asia).