Robert Luo

Executive Director

Robert's Bio

Robert Luo provides strategic advice to private and public companies within the ecommerce, travel, real estate, and fintech domains. He formulates breakthrough strategies and business model insights from over 25 years of experience in technology and supply chain. Robert also brings domain expertise in online marketplaces, property tech, and marketing tech. As a proven entrepreneur and change agent, he has helped companies rethink strategies, pivot to more promising markets, as well as multiply revenue without additional spend.

Robert started his first company with 15 employees when he was 19 and while a full-time student at USC. Robert then continued that upward trajectory and spent 20+ years in Asia and Europe managing and heading — at the C-level — the operations of multinational unicorn startups and public companies including General Electric, eBay, Expedia, Booking Holdings, and pre-IPO companies. He more than tripled the cross-border revenue for eBay in Southeast Asia, doubled revenue for Expedia Taiwan, 10X the affiliate revenue for Booking Holding subsidiary to USD 600M, and doubled the website conversion rate for the “Amazon.com of Indonesia”, which resulted in USD 1 Billion in yearly transaction volume.

Robert earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Cornell University.

Robert's Media

Robert's Thought Leadership

Woodside Capital Partners Presents: 2022 Tech Finance Look Forward

E-Commerce: The Path to $20 Trillion

WCP Q3 Insights Newsletter

99 Startups Poised for Growth : Prospering Amidst Pandemic

WCP Proudly Releases The Top Acquirers in Artificial Intelligence Report

Palo Alto, CA – April 03, 2019 – To obtain a copy of the full report please click here.

WCP is proud to share The Top Acquirers in Artificial Intelligence Report by our Managing Partner and Managing Director, Kelly Porter.

Transactions

WCP acted as exclusive financial advisor to KRT Marketing in its acquisition by Recruitics. KRT Marketing is a West Coast based data-driven recruitment marketing agency. Recruitics is an East Coast based agency the makes it easy for leading brands to attract and hire great talent. As pioneers in the space, Recruitics revolutionized recruitment advertising in 2012 by introducing the first recruitment marketing analytics and optimization platform. By acquiring another rapidly growing and innovative agency, Recruitics strengthened its position as the leading provider of talent attraction solutions to the Fortune 100.

Valencell, the leading innovator in wearable biometric sensor technology, and Sonion, the global leader in micro acoustic and micro mechanical technologies and solutions for hearing instruments and specialty earphones, today announced a strategic partnership that will expand the boundaries for the use of biometric sensors in the ear. As part of the partnership, Sonion has made a strategic investment in Valencell, making Sonion a significant shareholder in Valencell Inc. WCP acted as exclusive advisor to Valencell for this transaction.

WCP is proud to announce that it acted as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Cuberg on its acquisition by Northvolt, a company positioning to be Europe’s largest supplier of batteries for Electric Vehicles. Cuberg specializes in high-energy-density lithium metal battery design and production. This deal comes close behind the EU’s goal of 30 million EVs by 2030, as Northvolt builds one battery factory in Sweden and one in Germany to scale up production and satisfy rising EV demand.

LiftIgniter, a provider of on-site and in-app content recommendations across hundreds of leading digital properties worldwide, was acquired by Maven, a media coalition of professional content destinations, operating exclusively on a shared digital publishing, advertising and distribution platform. The transaction bolsters Maven’s content with LiftIgniter’s recommendation technology, providing consumers with a personalized and more enriched online experience.

Badgeville, a provider of gamification and social engagement solutions, was acquired by CallidusCloud to bolster its own solutions around cloud-based sales, marketing, learning and customer experience. CallidusCloud was subsequently acquired by SAP for its sales performance management (SPM) and configure-price-quote (CPQ) solutions in a $2.4 billion deal.

Content Delivery Network and App Delivery Platform Provider XDN has been acquired by Fortinet, in a bid to strengthen its own software abilities in cloud management, said John Maddison, Fortinet's VP of technical marketing. This deal should help Fortinet integrate security and WAN optimization services with content acceleration software from XDN, providing a distributed, cloud-based approach to adapt effectively to disruptive attack traffic.