Robert P. Sabella

Robert P. Sabella is a serial entrepreneur, investor, inventor and author. He has started several companies, invested in a few more and invented some products along the way with two current patent-pending applications. NFC for Dummies is Mr. Sabella’s second published book, his first being the RFID+ Exam Cram™. He is passionate about start-ups, both as an entrepreneur and an investor. Mr. Sabella’s focus is on all things related to mobile, specifically proximity ID technologies (NFC, RFID, BLE) and mobile commerce apps.

Mr. Sabella founded the NFC Bootcamp™ (www.nfcbootcamp.com) in 2011 and has since trained hundreds of individuals and organizations around the world on NFC and related proximity technologies and the solutions they enable. He also created and co-founded AccelerateNFC™ (www.acceleratenfc.com), a seed accelerator program focused exclusively on proximity ID technologies and is the co-organizer of the global hackathon series TrackHack: The Proximity ID Hackathon™ (www.proximityhack.com). Mr. Sabella is also the co-founder and Managing Partner of Interact Ventures (www.interactventures.com), a seed round venture capital investment firm focused on proximity ID technologies (NFC, RFID, BLE), IoT and mobile commerce.

Mr. Sabella holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Philosophy and a Juris Doctor from Boston College.