Bob Fleming has been a successful venture capitalist and entrepreneur since 1985. Mr. Fleming is a co-founder of Inlet Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Jupiter, FL. In 1995, he founded Prism Venture Partners, a Boston-area venture capital firm. Mr. Fleming built the firm as Managing Partner to manage $1.25 billion in five funds. Prior to founding Prism, Mr. Fleming was a General Partner with two venture capital firms, Norwest Venture Capital and the Vista Group. While at Vista, he opened and managed the firm’s West Coast office from 1988 to 1993. He returned to New England in 1993 to join Norwest. Earlier in his career, Mr. Fleming was an early employee of Gartner Group, joining the company in 1983, when it had less than $10 million in revenues. At Gartner, he founded and ran the Local-Area Communications research service. He holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Wharton School.