Robert Blum

Robert Blum is founder, president, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the board of Cytokinetics, a biopharmaceutical company. Prior to Cytokinetics, Robert held senior positions at COR Therapeutics. He is on faculty at the Center for BioEntrepreneurship at UC San Francisco where he teaches a corporate finance course. Robert serves on the board of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, chairing its Business Leadership Council; on the National Board of the American Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science; and on the board of BayBio. He has also served on the boards of San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Anti-Defamation League. He has established the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund and the Tikkun Olam Science Prizes for Bay Area schools. Robert received BA degrees in human biology and economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Robert is a 2005 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.