Paula Robins, Chief Financial Officer
Paula Robins is Chief Financial Officer of Smart Technology Ventures III.  Prior to joining Smart Technology Ventures, Ms. Robins worked as an independent financial consultant specializing in valuations of closely-held companies, lost earnings calculations in business litigation, and tracing of business assets.  She is a qualified expert in financial and accounting matters in Los Angeles Superior Court.  As a CPA, she was associated with Price Waterhouse and later served in the Treasury departments of Long Beach Bank and Tenet Healthcare, where she handled asset-liability management, interest-rate hedging, capital budgeting, corporate planning, and investment analysis. 

Ms. Robins is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and received her MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA (www.anderson.ucla.edu).  While at Anderson, she was awarded a fellowship with the California Office of Economic Policy, Planning and Research.  She also holds the CCM (Certified Cash Manager) and CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) credentials.  She has given lectures for groups including the California Society of CPAs, the American Society of Women Accountants, and Optimist International, and has written both technical and popular articles on financial, tax and accounting issues.