Bob has served in various executive management and leadership positions at several institutional asset management firms, including as Deputy CIO at VCU Investment Management, Co-CIO at Piedmont Investment Advisors and CIO/Founder/Principal of Shenandoah Asset Management. Bob has significant experience developing and monitoring equity investment activity, portfolio management, product development and research. In his position as Deputy CIO at VCIMCO, he oversaw the investment activity for the endowment fund of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). In his prior position, he led the quantitative team that was responsible for providing the quantitative infrastructure that benefitted all of Piedmont’s investment products. He served as Portfolio Manager for the active SMid US equity product. Over the years, Bob and his team conducted significant research and built products including Smart Beta, US small cap, large cap enhanced indexes, long/short and international equity portfolios. He was also responsible for managing and monitoring the firm's fundamental research process. Bob was an equity partner and served on the firm's four-member executive leadership team.Before joining Piedmont in 2010, Bob was responsible for the investment management operation, portfolio management, and trading at Shenandoah Asset Management, which he co-founded in January, 1999. Prior to Shenandoah, Bob was the Director of Equity at the Virginia Retirement System, where he was responsible for the $16 billion US equity portfolio as of 12/31/1998, including $4.5 billion managed internally. All of these positions included significant experience in research, portfolio management, traditional long-only and long/short investing (market neutral, 130/30) and program management.Bob received his BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.