About the Author

Andrew Robin, known to most as Andy, was born in Chicago and raised in Mexico City.  He holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Harvard University.  He has been happily married to Carole for 35 years, and they have two fine kids, Nick, 33 and Molly, 31.

Andy was an entrepreneur with his dad in the computer industry in the early ‘70s in Mexico City (his dad moved the family there from Chicago to pursue an opportunity).  He was in the semiconductor industry for 22 years (at Mostek, Monolithic Memories, AMD, and Lattice), mostly in marketing, but also as a general manager, and most recently as VP of New Business Ventures.  He was a house dad from 2002 to 2007 until Carole and Andy’s youngest went off to college. 

Today he retains the duties of shopping/cooking, household maintenance, travel planning, and finances.  He also plays a lot of classical piano, some golf, enjoyed 6 years on the Board and Executive Committee of his large synagogue (Congregation Beth Am of Los Altos Hills), where he was also co-chair of raising an endowment, was part-time CEO of a promising tech start-up for 6 years (and remains on the Board), is an Executive Coach and Life Coach, serves on the Board of a foundation in Palo Alto and a NYC hedge fund, and enjoys day-trips, lectures, and concerts around the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. 

Andy wrote Tapas Life to do some good for others.

Andy’s wife, Carole Robin, wrote a terrific book for Penguin RandomHouse with her colleague David Bradford:  Connect:  Building Exceptional Relationships With Family, Friends, and Colleagues.  It distills the combined 70 years she and David enjoyed teaching the Interpersonal Dynamics course at Stanford Graduate School of Business.  She believes that when more people embrace the learnings in her book, the world will be a better place.