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Robyn Ward is an American business and leadership coach and advisor to early stage technology companies. She is better known as the Founding partner and CEO of FounderForward. She is a speaker and writer on the topics of fundraising and culture, team and leadership development.

Early life and education
Robyn Ward was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, lived in New York City for more than a decade and then moved back to Los Angeles in 2008, the home of her Alma Mater. She earned a Bachelors of Science in Business, with an emphasis in Entrepreneurship, from the University of Southern California.

Career
Robyn Ward started her career as an investment banker with Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, Inc.. She then moved into the technology startup space where she served as a business development and operations executive and a member of the leadership teams of five venture-backed startups including Docstoc which was later acquired by Intuit. In 2013, she took a job with United Talent Agency as Head of New Media Ventures, a role in which she identified and invested in startups, and worked closely with UTA’s portfolio investments to help them grow. Her career as an executive and business coach began when she launched FounderForward.

Robyn was a consultant on the inaugural season of Apple's show, Planet of the Apps and has been named among the Top Woman in LA Tech by DigitalLA as well as a Top LA Tech Ambassador by TechWeek.

Robyn is a supporter of diversity and inclusion, and is dedicated to mentoring female startup founders. Subsequently, she is an advisor to The Female Quotient (The Girls Lounge), Women Investing In Women and Loreal's Women in Digital Program. She also teaches a class on entrepreneurship at USC and sits on the advisory council to the school's Lloyd Grief Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.