Robert Landis The Riverside Company

Bob Landis may be the Middle Market Musings guest least in need of introduction – the O.G. business development partner at one of the most active middle market private equity funds, and the person cited most often by other MMM guests as career inspiration.

Bob is Founding Partner, Origination at The Riverside Company, a multi-vehicle investment company with more than $13 billion in assets under management. After charting his Midwestern childhood, military service and early career in commercial banking, Bob shares the details on his arrival at Riverside in 2002. He and the hosts trade stories on early days on the road – and the fundamentally collaborative culture built while competing for deals. Discussion winds up with Bob’s current role focusing on Riverside investment exits and his mid-life embrace of hockey as recreation and charitable endeavor.