Robert G. Haile III

Rob is a Managing Director in Stifel’s Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group focusing on companies in the food, agribusiness, and consumer & retail industries. Rob joins Stifel with more than 20 years of investment banking and private equity investment experience and is a specialist in mergers, acquisitions, and financings in the consumer, food, and technology sectors, having executed more than 100 transactions for more than $70 billion of total value around the world.

Prior to joining Stifel, Rob served as Managing Director and Head of Food & Consumer at BB&T Capital Markets. Prior to BB&T Capital Markets, he was a Managing Director at TCI, a boutique advisory firm, where he co-headed the firm's M&A Advisory platform in Washington, DC.

Rob’s prior experience also includes his work as a Senior Vice President at EG Capital Group, a New York-based private equity fund focused on buyouts of middle market companies in the consumer and media sectors, where he was a member of the Board of Directors of Water Pik, Inc. Prior to that, Rob was a Vice President in the Advisory Group at Integrated Finance, a New York-based investment banking firm, where he worked alongside the founders of the firm advising Fortune 500 global clients on mergers, acquisitions, corporate finance, and risk advisory transactions. He began his career at J.P. Morgan in New York and San Francisco as an industry generalist with the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group.

Rob holds an A.B. in Economics and History from Duke University.