Robert Ebert

Currently, Rob is the Founder and CEO of Zenithar, a company created to help source capital for growth stage companies, mainly in the field of Life-Sciences, AI and IT and to aid in matching investors with the best managers of funds.

His focus has been mainly on companies and asset managers that focus on purpose and impact.

Rob sits on two private boards in the financial sector and is an advisor to a number of firms in the sector both on the buy and sell side. He is additionally on the Advisory Board of Panoteck, a digital media company.

Since stepping away from Investment Banking he has been actively investing and advising, mainly in the Technology and Medical fields and is particularly focussed on opportunities that can have a positive social impact.

In 2015, whilst at Deutsche Bank, he was promoted to Head of the Equity Division APAC and had responsibility for all sales and trading functions across the 17 countries in the region as well as being made Head of Global Markets, Hong Kong.

Rob was Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Securities Asia Limited, sat on the Global Equity Executive Committee and the Global Markets ExCo in Asia Pacific, before retiring from the Bank in the Summer of 2016.

Previously Rob was the Head of the Institutional Client Group in Asia from Hong Kong and later became Head of all equity sales for the Asia Pacific Region and was also Co-Global Head of Sales.

After a second stint in Tokyo Rob was asked to combine Cash Sales Trading, Electronic Execution and Program Trading Sales into one group called Execution Services in Europe before moving to New York in 2008 to be the Head of the Institutional Client Group for the USA and being responsible for the Bank’s equity clients across all facets of the franchise in Derivatives, Prime Brokerage and in the Cash Equity business. He was also appointed Global Head of Execution Services Sales.

Rob started his career in Finance in 1985 as trader on the Japanese Warrant desk for Daiwa Securities before moving to Morgan Stanley in 1987. He moved to Japan in 1991 to run the Warrant trading desk in Tokyo and returned to London in 1995 to Head up the Asia Pacific Sales-Trading operation. The following year he joined, what was at the time, a fledgling equity business at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, the Investment Banking arm of Deutsche Bank. He returned to Tokyo in 1997 with Deutsche to run sales-trading, ultimately also looking after Convertible Bond and Program Trading Sales.