Robert serves as a Managing Director for Madison Capital Group. He has extensive experience structuring equity, mezzanine, and debt transactions for developers and operators of commercial real estate projects. His experience covers a wide array of transactions throughout the capital stack for a variety of clients spanning from development projects to fully stabilized properties. In his role, Robert works closely with the firm’s client base spearheading their overall capital raising needs.

Prior to Madison, Robert served as the Head of Capital Markets for Mattoni Group, a private equity real estate investment firm that specializes in investing equity and debt with experienced operating and development partners. Robert was responsible for all aspects of capital raising and investor relations as well as working with the firm’s clients throughout the entire investment process. Among his other achievements, he was instrumental in the creation of a joint-venture with a global institutional credit investor for the firm’s CRE, NPL & REO platforms.

Previously, Robert served as managing director at Lloyd Jones Capital, a private equity real estate firm specializing in value-add multifamily investments for institutional investors. His primary responsibility included the facilitation of institutional joint-venture equity for the firm’s real estate investments as well as implementing proprietary capital raising strategies.

Before that, Robert was a founding member and senior managing director for Cabrera Capital Markets, a Chicago-based boutique investment bank and broker-dealer.  The Firm provides investment banking and full-service institutional brokerage services worldwide. He was central in developing the firm’s municipal bond business, fixed income and debt capital markets division as well as establishing the firm’s money management affiliate which created a joint-venture with a London-based hedge fund group that had over $20B in AUM.

Earlier in his career, Robert held financial positions with both Unilever Corporation and Cumberland Farms-Gulf Oil. He also served on the board of directors of Joyent, a cloud computing start-up, that successfully completed several rounds of financings and was sold in 2016.

Robert received both a Master of Science in Finance (MSF) degree and a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College. He also holds securities licenses 7, 24, 27, 63, and 65.