Bio

When Rob founded Brookwood, he saw an opportunity to address a market that was not adequately served by the major Wall Street firms – providing exceptional investment banking service to middle market companies. Prior to founding Brookwood, he was a Vice President in Goldman Sachs & Co.’s investment banking group in New York. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he worked in the investment banking group at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Rob serves as a trusted advisor to management teams, boards of directors and business owners on a variety of transactions, including exclusive sales, divestitures, acquisitions, recapitalizations, financings and bankruptcies. He also has experience in fairness opinions, in representing special committees dealing with complex corporate transactions, and in representing foreign buyers in making acquisitions in the U.S. He is an active board of directors member for private companies and non-profits. Rob serves or has served as director of private companies such as: Vectorply Corporation, a manufacturer of highly-engineered composite products; Incident IQ, the leading provider of service management SaaS software to the K-12 school market); Crom Corporation, a specialty service provider to the water infrastructure industry; Atlantic Investment Company, a family-controlled investment firm; and a family office focused on real estate and natural resources investments. Rob also serves as a director of non-profits: Emory Saint Joseph’s Inc. (hospitals); and Saint Joseph’s Health System/Mercy Care (medical care for the poor and homeless); SteerSmart (safe driving education); and MARR (addiction recover services). He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and the Harvard Business School. Rob and his wife Lauren live in Atlanta and are the proud parents of six grown children.