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- Full Name
- Brian Roberts
- Title
- Institutional Liaison / Investment Consulting (per LinkedIn) — see caveat
- Firm
- Evaluation Associates (institutional investment-consulting firm; now part of Milliman/Mercer lineage)
- Firm Type
- Institutional Investors / Investment Consulting
- Location
- Norwalk, Connecticut area (Evaluation Associates HQ)
- Investment Stage
- *Unverified.* The source stub lists "Seed Round," but nothing in public records substantiates seed-stage venture activity for this individual, and it is inconsistent with an institutional investment-consulting role. Omitted rather than asserted.
- Check Size / Target Company Profile / Sector Focus / Geographic Focus
- *Not verifiable from public sources — omitted rather than invented.*
Background
Important data-quality note. The stub record supplied for "Brian Roberts" appears to conflate at least two or three different people who share this very common name, so I have researched the identifiers rather than assumed a single coherent person:
1. Evaluation Associates Brian Roberts — The primary email domain (`evaluationassociates.com`) and the "Institutional Investors" firm type point to Brian Roberts, listed on LinkedIn as an Institutional Liaison at Evaluation Associates. Evaluation Associates is a long-established institutional investment-consulting firm founded in 1969 in Norwalk, CT, advising corporate retirement plans, endowments, foundations, and other institutional portfolios. At its peak it reported roughly $200 billion in assets under advisement across ~115 clients. In 2011, Mercer Investment Consulting acquired most of the firm (its public-sector consulting business went to Callan Associates); the "Evaluation Associates" name has since continued under the Milliman/Mercer corporate lineage. Beyond his job title, no substantive verifiable biographical detail (education, dated career history, deal activity) is publicly available for this specific individual.
2. Insulet / Omnipod Brian Roberts — The second email (`[hidden]`) and the +1 (781) 457-5000 Massachusetts number map to Insulet Corporation (Nasdaq: PODD), maker of the Omnipod insulin pump. A Brian Roberts served as Insulet's Chief Financial Officer, departing in 2020. Public bios describe ~30 years in finance, a start at Ernst & Young, a CPA, and a B.S. in Accounting/Finance from Boston College; he later became CEO of Tarveda Therapeutics (which he joined as CFO in 2018) and, in November 2023, CFO of Sensata Technologies. This is an operator/CFO, not a seed-stage investor.
3. Possible third identity — A prominent, unrelated Brian Roberts is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (former CFO of Lyft and Splunk, ex-Evercore/Microsoft/Walmart). Nothing in the stub's contact data ties to a16z, so he is noted only to rule him out, not claimed as the subject.
The remaining phone numbers in the stub — (503) 813-5000 (Oregon) and (44) 19 3283-6270 (UK) — could not be tied to any of the above with confidence and are not reproduced as verified contacts.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- No published, attributable investment thesis could be found for the Brian Roberts at Evaluation Associates.
- Evaluation Associates' work is institutional investment consulting (manager selection, asset allocation, and fiduciary advice for pensions, endowments, and foundations) rather than direct seed/venture investing — so the stub's "Seed Round" tag is not supported by any source and is treated as unverified.
- Any thesis quote would be fabrication; none is asserted here.
Notable Investments
- No verifiable portfolio companies or seed/venture deals could be attributed to this individual. (The Insulet-linked Brian Roberts is a corporate CFO, not a venture investor; the a16z Brian Roberts is a separate person.) Listing companies here would be invention, so this section is intentionally left without fabricated entries.
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