Joined RVA757 Connects: 2021

Robby Demeria is the chief corporate affairs officer for Phlow Corp., a public benefit pharmaceutical manufacturing company dedicated to reliably supplying affordable, high-quality, essential medicines.

Demeria has over 20-plus years of experience in government, corporate, and community affairs with a strong reputation of delivering key success drivers for both public and private organizations.

Prior to Phlow, Demeria served as Virginia’s first deputy secretary of commerce and trade for technology and innovation, where he guided the administration’s policy and initiatives related to those focus areas.

He also was the chief architect of the innovation-led entrepreneurship and tech-based economic development agency, the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority. Demeria was a trade association executive for nearly 15 years, serving as the president of the Richmond Technology Council and vice president of government affairs for the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

While overseeing the technology council, he founded its first foundation for technology education, launched one of the largest – and still running – women in technology conferences in the southeast U.S., and championed programs that highlighted and grew the region’s tech talent.