Bobby Yerramilli-Rao serves as Managing Partner at Hermes Growth Partners. He is an Independent Director at Instart Logic. He was formerly the Corporate Strategy Director and Internet Services Marketing Director of Vodafone Group. As part of these global roles Bobby was responsible for overall strategy and technology related acquisitions and served on the company's investment committee. Bobby serves on the Boards of Directors of Instart Logic and Cambridge Epigenetix, is an observer on the Board of Thinking Phones, and was the lead investor at Fuze and RingCentral. Bobby is a former research engineer at Marconi and was a partner at McKinsey and Company in New Jersey and Palo Alto. Bobby holds a DPhil in Robotics from the University of Oxford and an MA in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member and Chairman at CEGX.