Rob Gough, is an American entrepreneur, actor and investor and the current Owner and CEO of streetwear label DOPE. He was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He has a net worth greater than $75 million.

Gough graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in 2007.

Gough was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma at the age of 18 during his freshman year of college and was given just a 30% chance to live.

During his treatment, he went through 17 months of chemotherapy, and after fully recovering returned to school. ^[7]

As an early entrepreneur, he set up Bidaroo, an online auction site which went on to sponsor an Indy car for the season and was eventually sold to a private buyer in 2009. Gough then went to work for Finish Line (NYSE: FINL) where he grew their online marketing programs over 500% each year from $300k a year to over $30 million.

Gough co-founded Eckim, an award-winning performance marketing company, in 2012.

The company moved from Indianapolis to Marina Del Rey, California. The company grew rapidly and won awards. In 2012, Eckim won "Best New Publisher" at the Golden Link Awards in New York City. Under Gough’s leadership the company continued to win prestigious awards every year. Within 3 years, the company was hitting 8-figure revenues and was eventually sold to Quotient (NYSE: QUOT), formerly known as "Coupons," in August 2014. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

He is the major investor in NEwhere, a rapidly growing premium vapor products company that owns NEWhere.com, Mad Hatter Juice, VapeCo, CBDfx.

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In 2017 Gough purchased Los Angeles-based streetwear label DOPE.

^[13] In one of his first moves as CEO, Gough announced a collaboration between DOPE and BET, BET's first merchandise collaboration.

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In 2016, Gough got into acting and producing and is set to appear in 4 major motion pictures in 2017.

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In 2015, Gough purchased his home on Bravo’s "Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles" TV show through his good friend Josh Altman.

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