Robert Eckart

Lafayette, Louisiana Area United States

Managing Director

Telecom / Mobile

Robert Eckart has an extensive history as an entrepreneur, investment consultant and businessman. After studying biology at Earlham College, Mr. Eckart worked as a surgical X-ray technician and went on to work as a financial analyst with Shearson Lehman Brothers. In 1991 he became a liaison between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Russian Commodity Exchange in Moscow and helped with the setup and registrative process of the Russian exchanges in Moscow and Novosibirsk. In 1992 Mr. Eckart was tapped to serve as the in-country director of the Russian Science Initiative run by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a think tank located in McLean, Virginia. This progra...