Robert Wheelock, III

Robert has more than 48 years of comprehensive experience in planning, organizing, financing, and managing entrepreneurial businesses in various capacities. For nearly 10 years, he served as a senior financial executive for a renewable energy company.

Rob was a co-founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Executive Officer of Banyan Corporation and its subsidiaries from 1977 until 1985, where he was responsible for arranging approximately $200 million of private financing for emerging companies. Rob holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, and a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in finance from Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. His experience includes dealing with business enterprises engaged in the commercialization of emerging technologies; renewable energy; electronic data processing and information technology.