Ep. 19 Bob Landis, Founding Partner of Origination, The Riverside Company

• "If you do what you love, you'll never have to work a day in your life"
• Why he knows 10x more about others, and more than others think to ask
• Difficulties in transitioning from the military to civilian life and lessons to share
• His dad’s impact on him, and how he wants to impact his sons 
• The evolution of BD/origination as a profession within the deal community 
• What differentiates a good BD person and a great BD person 
• Is ACG still relevant...is it adjusting?

BIO

Bob Landis is a Founding Partner, Origination in the New York office of The Riverside Company, a private equity firm investing in premier companies at the smaller end of the middle market. He works with a team of 17 professionals who coordinate origination and structuring opportunities for Riverside's investment portfolios across 9 diversified funds globally. He also serves as a board member of ACG New York.

Bob has over 42 years of commercial and investment banking experience gained at Deutsche Banc Alex Brown (18 years) and its predecessors, and at Citibank/ Chemical Bank. At Deutsche, he developed industry expertise in the consumer, industrial, transportation, and telecommunications sectors and in his last position (1987-2002) he created and led the Aerospace and Defense Group in North America. Bob previously headed the firm's North American corporate finance group as it transitioned to an investment bank in the mid 1990's. At Citibank, he was Vice President of the Multi-National Group. Prior to that, Bob was a Major (ret.) in the U.S. Army, serving 6 years active duty and 14 years active reserve with the 42nd Infantry Division, NYARNG.

About The Riverside Company. With over $10 billion in assets under management, The Riverside Company is one of the largest and oldest global private equity firms. Riverside makes control and non-control investments in companies with enterprise values under $400 million. Since its founding in 1988, Riverside has invested in more than 650 transactions and currently has a portfolio that includes more than 90 companies worldwide. The firms’ specializations include healthcare, education and training, manufacturing, tech-enabled business services, software, consumer, and franchising.