Robert joined the Children’s Minnesota Foundation on August 28th, 2023.
Before entering a career in philanthropy, Robert was a senior trust officer for two financial institutions, leading trust and estate administration efforts and overseeing investment and personal financial planning programs. He began his non-profit career as a charitable gift planner for a nationally-recognized liberal arts college in the Midwest before serving as the lead charitable gift planner and senior director of development for the University of Houston during its successful $1 billion capital campaign. More recently, Robert served as the national director of gift planning for a top-rated humanitarian and poverty relief organization and as the lead fundraiser for the department of internal medicine at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine. Robert brings 30 years of legal and financial planning experience to his work in helping donors create meaningful impact through their charitable giving.
He is a member of the Leadership Institute of the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners (NACGP) and began his three-year term as a director of CGP in January 2024.