Bob Tinker is a serial CEO and operator with 18+ years of leadership building and scaling B2B software businesses from zero to market leaders, including founding MobileIron and taking it public. As CEO and co-founder of BlueRock.io he now focuses on securing agentic AI workflows—bringing product, go-to-market, and engineering together to make autonomous agents safe and auditable. He also runs operator-led buyouts at Metamorph Partners and chairs Fluxx, applying hands-on operational playbooks to SaaS turnarounds and growth. A published co-author on startup scaling and “go-to-market fit,” he blends narrative-driven coaching with board-level governance. Based in Menlo Park, he pairs a Stanford MBA and systems engineering background with a tinkerer’s hacker ethos—interested in solarpunk ideas and practical tooling for developer and security communities. Notably, he bridges deep go-to-market instincts with technical product sensibilities to move companies from PMF to escape velocity.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
BS, Systems Engineering, BS, Systems Engineering at University of Virginia
Bash Proof-of-Concept (PoC) script to exploit SIGRed (CVE-2020-1350). Achieves Domain Admin on Domain Controllers running Windows Server 2003 up to Windows Server 2019.
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Bob Tinker - CEO, Board Member, Co-Founder at BlueRock.io