teams
We are a small, purpose-built team built for you and your success. We have decades of industry-specific experience to help you grow from zero to scale and are with you every step of the way.
Ted Wang
Ted is a board member at Cowboy, helping our portfolio companies grow and thrive. In addition to his work at Cowboy, Ted is the founder of Stoked Advisors, an executive coaching service dedicated to helping founders and other executives reach their full potential.
Prior to Cowboy, Ted was recognized as one of the top technology lawyers in the country and worked with several major startups including Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Square, Zuora, and Gusto. Ted is an enthusiastic and intellectually curious man, and his passion is sharing the lessons of his career with entrepreneurs.
Ted is a Duke Blue Devil, a wandering traveler, a DJ for seniors who still like to dance, a nature lover with little skill but lots of energy, and a very emotionally engaged local sports fan. Ted is also active in the community, particularly in the areas of mental health and homelessness. He has two children, a patient and understanding wife, and the perfect dog named Hank.
Amanda Robson
Amanda (better known as “Robby”) loves working with passionate founders who have become experts in their field. She works with companies of all types, but focuses on software infrastructure innovations in developer tools, data and analytics, and security.
She has a passion for open source companies and is a co-host of the Open Source Startup Podcast , where she has interviewed over 70 open source founders about how they started, monetized, and scaled their companies.
Robby is the proud founder of Modern Angels , a community and database of over 200 female and non-binary angel investors. She is also co-director of All Raise’s VC Champions program and co-chair of NextGen Partners , an organization that helps startup investors get the support and access they need to succeed.
Like many Canadians, Amanda loves the outdoors. She also loves music (particularly live music) and studied at Western University’s Ivey Business School, where her favorite thing to do was research business strategies and technology trends as the editor-in-chief of the student business magazine Ivey Business Review.
Robby was on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 list for Venture Capital and has been profiled by TechCrunch, Insider, and Canadian Business Magazine.
Jillian Williams
Jillian loves working with passionate people who are obsessed with the problems and inefficiencies facing our society. Jillian is a fintech nerd and loves exploring the intersection of fintech and all other sectors. She spends her time in B2B and B2C fintech, and the SaaS vertical in general.
Prior to joining Cowboy, Jillian was an investor at Anthemis, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage fintech, with a presence in North America and Europe. Jillian worked closely with companies across the fintech spectrum, including Pipe, Power, Maxwell, and Truelayer. She also led the launch of the Female Innovators Lab, Anthemis’ venture capital studio in partnership with Barclays that supports female founders.
Jillian graduated from Yale with a BA in Economics. She also serves as the Director of BLCK VC NYC, the New York chapter of BLCK VC, a nonprofit organization that aims to double the number of Black investors by 2024.
Jillian was on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022, Crain's New York 40 Under 40 in 2021, and Business Insider included her on the list of VCs to watch in New York.
Ryan Stroub
Ryan loves working with early-stage companies, helping them add structure, processes, and financial disciplines that allow them to scale effectively and efficiently.
Prior to joining Cowboy, Ryan was CFO of software company FortressIQ, before it was acquired by Automation Anywhere. He spent over twenty years in the financial services industry as CFO of Thomas Weisel Partners and SharesPost and as Controller of E*TRADE.
Ryan graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, emphasis in Accounting, and yes, having grown up in Monterey and Santa Barbara, he still surfs occasionally.
