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Rob Glen
Managing Director, Financial Markets |
Rob serves in both business development and analysis development capacities for The 451 Group and its financial product line. Most recently, he was a Managing Director and the San Francisco office head for Jacobs Capital, an Atlanta-based investment bank with an innovative, technology-enabled business model for serving midmarket companies. Prior to that, Rob was a Director in the Prudential Volpe Technology Group's San Francisco office, responsible for originating and executing financing and advisory engagements in the enterprise software sector. His duties also included coordination of Prudential's strategic alliance with Silicon Valley Bank and the marketing of its banking and research capabilities to the venture capital community.
In more than 13 years with Prudential, Rob also served as Director of Corporate Development and chief of staff to the CEO of its securities arm; as a lobbyist in the parent company's federal government relations office specializing in investment-related public policy issues; and as a founder of the investment bank's new-business program for its financial advisors. Rob has also served as a senior advisor for the Shattan Group, a New York-based investment bank focused on private placements of equity and equity-related securities.
Rob went to Wall Street in 1987 after almost a decade as a Washington-based journalist. He served as a staff correspondent and, subsequently, contributing editor at National Journal, a National Magazine Award-winning weekly focused on policy and politics. He also cofounded and authored a nationally syndicated opinion column, 'Here and Now,' that appeared in more than 100 metropolitan newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post and Miami News. He has contributed to such periodicals as The Economist, American Banker, 451 TechDealmaker, Legal Times and the Almanac of American Politics.
Rob received a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA from the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business, where he was named a Stern Scholar.

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