{"id":1217,"date":"2022-02-04T17:05:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T22:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2025-03-03T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:16:34","slug":"carletons-innovation-hub-appoints-robert-hocking-inaugural-entrepreneur-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/2022\/carletons-innovation-hub-appoints-robert-hocking-inaugural-entrepreneur-in-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton\u2019s Innovation Hub appoints Robert Hocking inaugural Entrepreneur-in-Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Innovation Hub at Carleton University<\/a> is delighted to announce the appointment of Robert Hocking as its inaugural Entrepreneur-in-Residence. A serial entrepreneur and consultant for international brands, Robert brings expertise in brand strategy, customer acquisition, and global scale-up to the role, which provides coaching and mentoring to Carleton students interested in innovation and new venture creation.<\/p>\n

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Robert started his career in advertising and launched his own agency in 1995. Over the following eight years, Robert expanded the business into a group of four integrated agencies specializing in advertising, public relations, digital and environmental design. He was recognized as one of Ottawa\u2019s top executives under the age of 40.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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After selling his interest in the business, he joined Ogilvy and Mather as Vice-President, Strategy, dividing his time between Toronto, Chicago, and New York, after which he joined its sister firm of Young & Rubicam. In 2007, he joined the preeminent retail and brand design company Fitch Worldwide in London as Chief Development Officer. His career led him to launch a retail and brand consultancy in partnership with Philip Ventures in the Netherlands, and an e-commerce company in the UK before returning to Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to his work as a business and brand consultant, Robert has worked in higher education as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Oxford\u2019s Said Business School and as a guest lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, Leeds University, Delft University of Technology, University College London and the London School of Economics. In 2019, he co-published a book entitled, \u201cThe Store (What Is It Good For?) And the Future of Retail Experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carleton students who are interested in scheduling a coaching session with Robert may do so by contacting the Innovation Hub at innovationhub@carleton.ca<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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