Bio

Robert Frost is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Head of the Industrials group at Lazard Middle Market. Mr. Frost has more than 20 years of investment banking experience. His transaction experience includes buy and sell-side M&A advisory, private equity placements, fairness opinions, and restructuring assignments. Mr. Frost has represented companies in a wide range of industrial sectors, including chemicals, specialty materials, building products, capital equipment, and engineered components. Prior to joining Lazard Middle Market in 2008, Mr. Frost spent nine years in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice of Piper Jaffray & Co. Prior to his career in investment banking, he spent seven years in public accounting with Deloitte & Touche LLP. Mr. Frost serves on the Alumni Executive Board of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Board of Directors of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Minneapolis. He graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.