Founder And Managing Partner
CurrentRob began his career as a financial advisor in 1988 with Butcher & Singer (later Wheat First Securites). In 2000, he moved his practice to RBC Wealth Management where he served as both an advisor and Branch Director in several offices in New Jersey. Despite a great affection for RBC and many of the people he had the good fortune to work with, Rob decided to establish his own practice in Westfield, N.J. As the founder and Managing Partner of Robert Shaffer Wealth Management, Rob was able to create a firm custom designed to serve his long term clients.Before coming into the advisory business he was a professional musician, recording engineer and soundtrack editor for the 1980s cartoon "Thundercats". Rob grew up in North Carolina, graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston and moved to Westfield with his wife Cathy in 1983.