Robert Sloan

Robert Sloan is the Managing Partner of S3 Partners, a global financing specialist firm dedicated to helping its hedge fund clients optimize and best manage prime broker relationships, which he founded in 2003.

He is the author of the book, Don't Blame the Shorts: Why Short Sellers are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History is Repeating Itself (McGraw-Hill/Fall 2009), which was nominated for Spear's book awards shortlist - financial history book of the year. Bloomberg and the Economist also recognized it as one of the top business books of the year. Bob has appeared on CNBC, CNBC Europe and C-SPAN.

Prior to S3 Partners, Bob was a Managing Director, the Global Head of prime brokerage, equity finance & delta one products, and a Member of both the securities division operating committee and the product managers committee at Credit Suisse First Boston. In 1998, Bob founded and chaired the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Index Co. This was the first investable benchmark index for alternative investments.

From 1989 until 1996, he worked at Lehman Brothers in the equity derivatives and central funding unit. Prior to his career on Wall Street, Bob was a speech writer and translator for the Ministry of International Trade & Industry (MITI), Tokyo, Japan. Bob holds a Bachelor of Arts from Washington & Lee University.