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Roberts spent 14 years as a partner and Director of Marketing at the investment management firm First Quadrant LP prior to his retirement in 2011. First Quadrant is respected globally as an innovative leader and investor in global macro and asset allocation strategies. The firm has been the recipient of four prestigious Graham and Dodd Awards for
excellence in investment research during its twenty-year history and continues its long held focus on high level research.
During his tenure at First Quadrant, Roberts served a term as a member of the firm’s governing board responsible for oversight of business operations, compensation, strategy, and public relations. Prior to his involvement with First Quadrant, Roberts served in a similar capacity as Marketing Director for Provident Capital Management in Philadelphia (1995 to 1997), and co-founded Akamai International, a boutique investment management firm offering institutional investors international equity strategies. He has presented at numerous industry conferences around the world and invited to participate on Institutional Investor’s Advisory Board. From 1987 through 1992, Roberts worked in the capital markets department for Bankers Trust Company and other regional banks advising multinational corporations on currency risk management strategies.
Prior to entering the financial services industry Roberts worked in oil and gas exploration and consulted on the environmental impact resulting from the development of the Central Arizona Project (the canal that brought water from the Colorado River to both Phoenix and Tucson AZ).
Roberts received a MBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame in 1986, and a BS in Agriculture and Watershed Hydrology from the University of Arizona in 1982.
