A former leader of Knowledge Investment Partners, Robert Daugherty directs the Forbes School of Business & Technology as executive dean. Maintaining a close watch on the financial industry, Robert Daugherty has guided various funds focused on high growth and technology-based verticals.
With technology valuation getting off to a rocky start in 2019 with Apple’s reduction of its holiday forecast amid slowing iPhone sales, industry watchers still find abundant upside in a sector that will continue to define human activity for the foreseeable future.
One fast-moving sector is online security, with new regulatory mandates as well as end user concerns driving demand for companies that can deliver effective, cost-efficient solutions. Businesses that can develop and implement innovative data privacy and protection systems are well positioned for rapid growth.
Another continued area of growth is in ledgered Blockchain technologies that have the capacity to generate verifiable and difficult-to-hack liquidity in previously illiquid assets. This is seen as ultimately leading to the creation of region-agnostic stock exchanges and financial marketplaces for new classes of assets.
