Rob Neville is an experienced entrepreneur and business executive with more than 30 years of development and operations experience across the life sciences industry, software, healthcare, IT, venture capital, and nonprofit sectors. Neville is a native of South Africa and has lived in Austin for more than two decades. Before Goodwill, he served as managing director at Springbok Ventures, an impact investment and business advisory company. Prior to that, Rob was founder and CEO of Savara Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ:SVRA), which focused on the development of therapeutics for rare lung diseases. Neville has served on the Board of Directors at the Austin Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and is currently on the nonprofit board of the Forward Foundation. Under Neville’s guidance in 2023, Goodwill Central Texas has helped nearly 9,000 people change their lives through its mission-based services, including job placement assistance programs for underserved populations, career training through the Goodwill Career and Technical Academy (GCTA), and adult high school education at the Excel Center for Adults.
