Bob Fitts

Overview

• Thirty-five years of experience founding, scaling, acquiring, integrating, re-organizing, financing and selling businesses, both domestically and abroad, for organizations such as Goldman Sachs & Co. and Prudential Financial

• Advisor to startups, early stage, growth stage, SMBs and lower-middle market businesses in a wide variety of industries

Expertise

• Operations and Finance, Venture Capital and Corporate Finance

• Mergers, Acquisitions & Integration

• Process/Performance Improvement, Turnaround Management, Scaling/Growth Management

• Strategic Planning

• Marketing and Business Development

• Culture and Team Enhancement

• Leadership

• Relationship Management

• Contract Negotiation

• Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

• Multicultural Adaptation

Geographic Experience

USA, Europe, Latin America

General Experience

• Have founded/scaled 10 departments, business lines and companies

• Participation in over 60 debt and equity transactions comprising approximately $5 billion in transactions value that includes both residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, municipal bonds, direct real estate acquisitions and financings, corporate M&A and divestitures, and private equity/family office fundraising activities

• Significant operations experience including overseeing finance/accounting, risk management, marketing, advertising, communications, project development, audit/internal control, technology, human resources, facilities, and general administrative activities

Specific Experience

• Middle Market: Reorganized a leading US institutional real estate investment manager ($35B AUM)

• Middle Market: Integrated two domestic commercial mortgage finance companies with combined revenues of $250mm

• Middle Market: Integrated an international institutional investment management organization into a U.S. Fortune 100 financial services company ($25B AUM + $10B AUM)

• Startup to SMB: Established and scaled a luxury multifamily development company from startup to $1 billion in assets under development as COO/CFO, including negotiating and closing family office GP

• Startup to SMB: Co-Founded a multinational resort development company with $1B in assets under development

• Startup/Early Stage/VC: Interim COO of early-stage P2P money transfer FinTech

• Startup/Early Stage/VC: Executive director of two South Florida tech/VC oriented non-profits and producer for six years of one of the Southeast’s largest tech/VC conferences

Education

• The Wharton School Mergers and Acquisitions Program

• Center for Creative Leadership, Leadership Development Program

• The George Washington University - Master of Business Administration - Finance

• Washington and Lee University - Bachelor of Arts (History)

Awards

• 2019 South Florida’s Power Leaders in Technology, South Florida Business Journal

• 2018 Economic Development Leadership Award – Entrepreneurship Council, Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance