Rob Metzger is a General Partner at MissionOG while also serving as a Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois, where he co-leads Orange & Blue Ventures, a program where students manage a real venture fund; before moving into venture capital, he built specialized banking practices, running William Blair's financial services and technology investment banking groups after working through roles at FASB, Price Waterhouse, A.T. Kearney, and ABN AMRO. At MissionOG, he focuses on corporate development and helping portfolio companies with strategic transactions, staying closely involved with companies like Token, Roots Automation, Infinicept, Payroc, Venminder, Autobooks, WageWorks, Millennium Trust, and USA Technologies, with attention to payments, compliance, and financial operations infrastructure, and he joined the firm first as a senior advisor before becoming a General Partner while keeping ongoing ties to William Blair.