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Robbie Payne

Executive in Residence
Joined Battery in 2023
Focus Areas: Application Software
Robbie is a veteran software executive and business strategist with over twenty-five years’ experience leveraging innovation to drive improved customer outcomes.

Robbie is a veteran software executive and business strategist with over twenty-five years’ experience leveraging innovation to drive improved customer outcomes. His broad depth of expertise in enterprise software is focused on optimizing operational excellence and organizational efficiency, as well as accelerating growth.

Robbie most recently served as CEO of smart-manufacturing solutions company CAMBRIO after joining Battery Ventures-backed SigmaTEK Systems as CEO in 2018. At CAMBRIO, Robbie led the organization through a period of transformative growth including the acquisition of Cimatron and GibbsCAM, which resulted in the formation of CAMBRIO and ultimately the company’s acquisition by Sandvik AB, a Swedish multinational engineering company.

Prior to joining SigmaTEK, Robbie held multiple senior executive roles at education-tech company IO/Illuminate Education (acquired by Insight Partners) and Horizon Software International, a Roper Technologies business focused on enterprise food-service management and payments solutions.