Robert Fisher
Independent Consultant
Robert Fisher has been in the securities industry for over forty-four years, serving primarily as principal, managing director, partner or founder. He was active in building three successful investment operations and is now engaged in an active consulting practice focused on leadership and management issues for entrepreneurial enterprises such as Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt and Trupanion.
Last year he was honored by the venture capital firm Maveron for his counsel and contributions, receiving their Bill Campbell "Make a Difference Award" as the independent individual who had during the preceding year been most helpful to Maveron portfolio companies.
Robert was a founding partner of the Sandoz Family Foundation Financial America, based in Geneva and Los Angeles, from 2000 to 2004. SFF Financial America identified and acted as a funding agent for venture capital enterprises.
In 1989, Robert started the Los Angeles office of Schroder's, a British investment bank, and was responsible for its activities until July 2000 when Salomon Smith Barney bought the bank's domestic and international securities business. In 1991, he became active in the firm's corporate finance efforts, with an emphasis on consumer-branded companies such as Il Fornaio and Starbucks.
Robert was a Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1974 to 1989, serving as Managing Director for the St. Louis, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills (brokerage division) offices. Previously (1970-1974), he was a co-founder and principal of The Fisher Corporation, an institutional research and investment banking firm located in St. Louis, Missouri. Before that he was Director of Institutional Research at Scherck, Stein and Franc, a St. Louis investment bank, (1967 to 1970). Robert began his career in 1963 at Goldman Sachs, where he was in the private client services group.
Over the course of his career, Robert has remained mindful of the crucial role of leadership in the world of global commerce and in the human experience. He became a Trustee at the Drucker Center's Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership, Claremont Graduate School. There, he served with noted leadership authorities Professor Jean Lipman-Blumen, Professor Richard Ellsworth, the late Professor Emeritus Hal Leavitt (Organizational Behavior-Stanford University), and the distinguished professor/author Warren Bennis of the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.
Robert has additionally served on the boards of the California Science Center in Los Angeles during major fundraising activities for its new facility, and The Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington. He also assisted in raising funds for the American Friends of the British Museum to help construct its court and dome.
Robert received a BSBA from Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, in 1964. His marriage of forty-four years to Bonnie Fisher ended with her death in 2007. He has three adult children and five grandchildren and now lives in San Francisco with his wife, Peggy Knickerbocker, author and journalist.
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