Robert Sher

Robert Sher General Information

Biography

Mr. Robert Sher serves as Board Member at EnergyRM. He co-founded and served as Managing Director and Member of the Executive Committee at Greenbacker Group. He has co-founded and served in leadership roles for three diverse entrepreneurial ventures including a statistical arbitrage hedge fund, an innovative institutional brokerage company, as well as a financial technology company. Prior to co-founding Greenbacker, Mr. Sher consulted for Globus Renewable, an Irish-based renewable energy fund focused on the acquisition of wind and solar properties in Spain and Ireland. Mr. Sher served as the Head of Operations and a Registered Securities Principal at ESP Technologies, a leading provider of financial software and services to institutional asset managers and hedge funds. Along with David Sher and James Weiner, Mr. Sher co-founded ESP Technologies in 2002. In May of 2007, that company was sold to a group of investors. In 2000, Mr. Sher co-founded ElephantX dot com, where he served as the President, Head of Operations and served on the firm's Board of Directors. Prior to co-founding ElephantX dot com, from 1997 to 2000. Mr. Sher co-founded and ran operations as the Director of Operations for Lafayette Capital Management, a New York-based statistical arbitrage hedge fund. Mr. Sher started his career at Citibank NA, where he managed emerging markets customer service and accounting teams, servicing their institutional client base from 1991 to 1997. Mr. Sher holds a Masters of International Affairs, International Policy Analysis and Management Columbia University and Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science from Rutgers University.