Bio

R.B. has over 20 years of investment banking experience. He has successfully arranged sales, mergers, divestitures, leveraged recapitalizations and private placement transactions with an aggregate transaction value of $2 billion. R.B.’s clients have included entrepreneurs, family-held businesses, corporations and private equity clients. These clients have represented a wide range of industries, including manufacturing and industrial products and services, branded consumer products, business services, and health care. R.B. began his investment banking career at Piper Jaffray, Inc. where he last served as a Vice President of Investment Banking within the private placement and middle market M&A teams. Prior to joining Piper Jaffray, R.B. spent six years in the reinsurance industry as an assistant vice president of E.W. Blanch Holdings’ strategic planning group. In 2003, R.B. left Piper Jaffray to join Goldsmith Agio Helms (now Lazard Middle Market). R.B. was a Managing Director of Lazard’s Multi-Industry Group before leaving to start Quetico Partners in 2009. In 2018, R.B. co-founded Hennepin Partners when Craig-Hallum’s M&A Group combined with Quetico Partners (all former colleagues and friends from Lazard Middle Market). R.B. graduated from Colby College with a BA degree in economics and Spanish. He holds an MBA degree from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota with an emphasis in finance and strategic management.