Robert joined Greenhill & Co. in January 2000 to form Greenhill Capital Partners. He founded GCP in December 2009. Prior to joining Greenhill in 2000, Robert spent 17 years at Morgan Stanley & Co., where he was a Managing Director in the merchant banking department from 1990 to 1999. Robert was Vice Chairman and a Director of Morgan Stanley Leveraged Equity Fund II, L.P., a $2.2 billion private equity investment fund, from 1992 to 1999 and was Vice Chairman and a Director of Morgan Stanley Capital Partners III, L.P., a $1.8 billion private equity investment fund, from 1994 to 1999. Robert was also Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley’s merchant banking department from 1996 to 1998. During his tenure in Morgan Stanley’s merchant banking department, the department invested approximately $3 billion in 66 separate transactions.

Robert has been a Director of the following GCP portfolio companies: Heartland Payment Systems, Everlast Energy, EXCO Resources, Global Signal (Vice Chairman and Director), Peachtree, U.S. Exploration, Healthcare Finance Group, Stroz Friedberg, Acrisure, ClearView Risk, TransFast and SV Resource Partners. He is currently a Director of Tresata, Zeta Global and Complete Merchant Solutions. Robert is also Chairman and a Director of Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) and has been a Director of many other public and private companies. He is a graduate of Princeton University (1977) and Harvard Business School (1982), from which he graduated with high distinction as a Baker Scholar.