Bob Reiss grew up in Brooklyn and attended the NYC public schools. He is a graduate of Columbia University (where he played on an undefeated basketball team). He is a US Army veteran and a Harvard Business School graduate.Bob Reiss was a National Sale Rep for 14 years before he switched to being a Manufacturer.He has been involved in 16 start-ups and is the founder of a number of highly successful companies, including Reiss Games, R&R, and Valdawn, Inc., a division of R&R. R&R/Valdawn was named to the Inc. 500 list of America's fastest-growing companies for three years in a row.Bob has been the subject of two Harvard Business School cases--taught at more than 100 universities around the world--and has been a guest speaker in entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels both nationally and internationally.His first book was Low Risk High Reward. He is married to an entrepreneur and has five daughters.