Rob McCormick

Rob McCormick launched Avatara in 2005 with a mission to offer enterprise-grade IT capabilities to small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) via a proprietary, secure, all-encompassing service model developed internally. Before Avatara, Rob held the position of Chief Executive Officer at Savvis from 1999 to 2005. There, he was pivotal in launching the industry’s inaugural virtualized managed hosting platform. His leadership facilitated multiple acquisitions, successful rounds of equity funding, significant growth, and a high-profile IPO that was among the top five most significant in the tech sector at that time. Before leading Savvis, Rob was the COO of Bridge Information Systems, which spun off to form Savvis in 2000.