Robert F. Smith

Robert F. Smith, the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista, is the Chairman of VistaOne and a member of the VistaOne Investment Committee. 

Robert is a member of the Business Roundtable and serves on the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School and the Cornell Engineering College Council. He is Chairman of Carnegie Hall, a Founding Member of the World Economic Forum EDISON Alliance, a Founding Partner of the REFORM Alliance, and the former Chair of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights.

Robert is the Founding Director and President of the Fund II Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving the African American experience, human rights, environmental conservation, and a broad range of initiatives. He also founded the Student Freedom Initiative to help relieve student debt at HBCUs and MSIs, and leads the Southern Communities Initiative to advance economic inclusion.

Robert has been awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, named one of Forbes’ 100 Greatest Living Business Minds and recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2020.