Robert A. Walton

Mr. Walton received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and spent a decade teaching at the ‘iSchool’, the Graduate School for Information at the University of Texas at Austin.

In 1990, Mr. Walton became President and CEO of CLSI, Inc., a higher education software firm in Boston, MA. In 1992, Mr. Walton sold CLSI to GEAC Corporation and moved to California where he took over as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Innovative Interfaces, Inc., an international library & information management software firm, expanding its base of operations to 33 countries during the ‘90s.

In 1998, Mr. Walton sold his ownership share of Innovative and shifted careers moving to Ohio where he took the position of Vice President for Finance and Business at The College of Wooster. After 8 years as CFO at Wooster, he assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Claremont University Consortium (CA) the umbrella corporation for The Claremont Colleges. Mr. Walton served as Vice President of Finance and Administration at Vassar College (NY) and concluded his higher education career by serving for 4 years as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of College Stores (NACS) located in Ohio, ending in 2019. Walton started a management consulting firm in 2019 and served as a consulting executive for high-net-worth family offices in California and Florida. Walton served as interim CEO of Revs Institute from 2022 until 2024 and has served as the interim CFO from 2024 until mid-2026.

In addition to the Revs Institute Board of Directors, Walton currently serves on the boards of Seaman Corporation (Ohio) a textile manufacturing company, Desert Services (Arizona) a construction company, and Carina Investments (Ohio). Walton previously served on the boards of RedShelf (Chicago), a private educational software company and as the Managing Director of Rendero Trust (WY). Mr. Walton previously served as Chairman of iPost Corporation, an internet-focused technology company based in San Francisco, CA, Chairman of Ex Libris (USA), an Israel technology company, and on the boards of Dynix Corporation, an international management information firm in Provo, Utah. Mr. Walton has served as an endowment trustee for the American Library Association, on the board and executive committee of the Association of Consortium Leadership, and was the only non-Chinese citizen board member of the Yaohau Experimental School, a private K-12 boarding school located in Shenzhen, RPC.

Mr. Walton resides in East Texas and New Orleans, LA.