About Acceleration Partners
How We Work
Acceleration Partners is a team of high-energy, performance-driven professionals who are passionate about working with start-ups, managing rapid growth, and building a business from the ground up. Our staff and associates thrive on high goals, cool projects, and a work environment where success is measured not in hours but in results.
Each engagement is structured on the unique needs of the client, drawing on a wide network of experts and subject specialists who have the most closely related skills. Clients are free to ramp their requirements up or down on an ongoing basis; while benefiting from our wide range of deep skill sets, they pay for only what they need. In many cases we partner with and manage subcontractors to provide an even more expansive range of expertise, calling on attorneys, PR firms, accountants, designers, developers, etc., to become integral team members as needed.
Management Team
Robert S. Glazer, Founder & Managing Director
Robert is entrepreneur and customer acquisition specialist with a focus on growing revenue and profits for early to mid stage product and services companies. He is also the founder of the popular consumer product review website Bobby’s Best.
Robert has a broad entrepreneurial background in operations, marketing, strategy, and business development with an emphasis on company formation, financing, and revenue growth. Robert’s industry expertise includes consumer products and services, technology, retail, and clean technology. Prior to founding Acceleration Partners, Robert served as the VP of Corporate Development for Isis Parenting, helping to grow the business from a prototype into a multimillion dollar, three center operation in less than three years. Previously, Robert worked for two early stage venture funds, founded an online product registration business (BrandStamp), and has served as an adviser and consultant to numerous early and growth stage businesses.
Robert serves on the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters Massachusetts Bay and the Big Brother Big Sister Foundation. He received his B.A. with distinction from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jason Henrichs, Venture Partner
Jason has been a consultant to many early stage companies and has assisted public companies create a culture of innovation and launch new businesses. Jason is the Chief Operating Officer of PerkStreet Financial and an active member of the start-up community as a board member, advisor, mentor, and investor. Jason is also a Managing Director at Rock Maple Ventures, where he is responsible for managing out the fund’s remaining investments.
Previously, Jason served as the Chief Operating Officer of U.S. Genomics, a venture-backed developer of ultra-high throughput sequencing technologies and an early executive / board member of Britemoon (an email marketing company acquired by ClickTactics). Before joining the world of early stage ventures, Jason was a strategy consultant at Monitor Company and project engineer for Deluxe Corporation.
Notable companies Jason has worked with, and / or sat on the boards of include: Blacksmith Applications, BlueSwarm, First Marblehead (FMD), Seahorse Biosciences, LocaModa, Memento Security, MedVantx, Morphotek (acquired by Eisai Pharmaceuticals), Versamed (acquired by General Electric), and Web-o-Matic. He is also the past President of the Massachusetts’s Service Alliance and advisor to City Year.
Jason began his education in leadership and engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point and completed studies in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences at Harvard University.