Dr. Robert Bishop is the Founder and Chairman of BBWORLD Consulting Services Sarl, a Geneva based hi-tech strategic advisory organization.

He served as Chairman and CEO of SGI from 1999 to 2005, and founded SGI World Trade Corporation, from which position he built and orchestrated all of SGI’s business outside of North America in the period 1986 to1999.

From 1982 to 1986, Dr. Bishop was the International Vice President for Apollo Computer, Inc., and from 1968-1982, he advanced through numerous global management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Before commencing his 40 year professional career in the field of Technical and Scientific Computing, Dr. Bishop spent 3 years as a Research Scientist in the developmental phase of Medical Ultrasonic and NMR.

Dr. Bishop is an Australian Citizen involved in a broad range of global initiatives: he is a Fellow of the Australian Davos Connection and is a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Council of Competitiveness in Washington, D.C. He serves on the advisory panels for National ICT Australia (NICTA), the Multimedia Super Corridor in Malaysia, and UCLA’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging. He is also a founding participant in Japan’s forum for Science and Technology in Society.

Dr. Bishop earned a B.Sc.(First Class Honors) in mathematical physics from the University of Adelaide, Australia, an M.Sc. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, and his Dr.Sc. honoris causa from the University of Queensland.

In 2006, Dr. Bishop was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal for his role in helping NASA’s space shuttles successfully return-to-flight after the 2003 Columbia disaster.

Dr. Bishop is also the Chairman of the advisory committee for EPFL’s Blue Brain Project under the leadership of Professor Henry Markram, Lausanne, Switzerland and Chairman of Maxamine, Inc. a high-performance website analytics company with its R&D centre based in Adelaide