Rob Levin

Prior to founding Republic Partners in 2000, Mr. Levin began his business career in 1985 as an associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department of The First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse First Boston).
While at First Boston, he worked on a wide variety of assignments in a broad range of industries and also spent two years as a dedicated member of the Divestiture and Exclusive Sale Group.
In 1990, Mr. Levin joined Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank) as a generalist in Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions where he continued to execute transactions for corporations and provide acquisition ideas and financing to private equity firms.
In 1997 he became a founding principal of Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm, where as part of their investment approach he began to focus on business services and the logistics industry.
Mr. Levin graduated with an AB from Harvard University and received his Masters of Management from Northwestern's J.L Kellogg Graduate School of Management.