Professional experience

2005 - Present                 Babson College                     Wellesley, MA

Adjunct Professor

Bob is teaching "Marketing for Entrepreneurs," a course for the Graduate Level Entrepreneurship program for the Fall and Spring semester at Babson College.

2003 - Present                 The Caspe Group LLC             Sherborn, MA

Founder and President.

1995 - 2003                     Sound Vision, Inc                  Framingham, MA 01701

Co-Founder and President

Sound Vision is a new Massachusetts company built with many of the same members of Leaf.  Sound Vision introduced the world's first 800k pixel CMOS digital camera.  It then produced the world's first ARM ASIC specifically designed for low cost digital cameras.  In 2001, Sound Vision created a series of TV-centric digital image viewing products that were sold through a number of OEM resellers.  In 2002, SVI pioneered the creation of innovative television direct marketing channels for digital cameras in order to expand the market to new, less PC capable, customers.

1986 - 1995                     Leaf Systems, Inc                 Southboro, MA 01701

Co-Founder and President

Leaf Grew to over 30M in sales without the need for any external financing and was subsequently sold in 1992 to Scitex, Inc., a public corporation.  Leaf successfully dominated the photojournalism market with innovation in image processing equipment used by newspapers and magazines.  Leaf also lead the field of digital photography with several innovative products.

1974 - 1986                     CDA, Inc                              Waltham, MA 01701

Co-Founder and President

CDA grew to over 15M in sales and was subsequently sold to Analogic Inc., a public corporation.  CDA lead the array processor market with the first microprocessor based array processor which was sold to several CAT and MRI system manufacturers.  CDA developed a direct end user business with its own innovative Nuclear Medicine System which was subsequently licensed to Siemens Medical Systems.  CDA was venture financed by several large venture capital firms. 

1971 - 1974              Signal Processing Systems, Inc       Waltham, MA 01701

Lead hardware engineer

Development of a programmable Array Processor.  SPS was a small startup. 

1969 - 1971              GTE Sylvania, Inc                          Needham, MA 01701

Engineer

Working on signal processor designs. 

Education

1965 - 1969 New York University School of Engineering and Science

BSEE, 1969, Member of Etta Kappa Nu, engineering honor society.

2008 SEE-24 Babson Entrepreneurship Education

Organizations

2005 - 2007
MIT Venture Mentoring Services - as a mentor for new entrepreneurs

2005 - Present
Babson College Entrepreneurship MBA Program - Entrepreneurial Mentoring

1994 - 2001
Sherborn Dollars for Scholars - Director

Awards

Wynton J. Lemmon Award
Award for technical contribution to Photojournalism

SBANE Entrepreneur of the Year
Award for leadership in small business

Seybold Product Concept of the Year
Award for the development of the HDR concept in publishing

The Arts

Mr. Caspe is an accomplished artist who works in a variety of media including watercolor, oil, wood, photography, ceramics, copper and, most recently, glass.  Some of his works can be view in the gallery.

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