Robert A. Muh
Robert A. Muh (born 7 January 1938) is an American entrepreneur, investor, economist and philanthropist. He is the CEO of Sutter Securities investment firm in San Francisco, CA.
Business Career
Muh served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army before beginning his business career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. from 1966-1969[1]. He then left to become chairman of Newburger, Loeb & Co, Inc. [2]. In 1972, Muh joined Bear Stearns & Co. as head of the Los Angeles region corporate finance department. He became a general partner at Bear Stearns in 1982 and served as senior managing director of the San Francisco region from 1984 to 1987 [3]. He then became President of Financial Services International Inc. from 1987 to 1992. In 1992, Muh co-founded Sutter Securities, Inc., a full-service investment-banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. He has served as CEO of Sutter Securities since that time [4].
Muh is the former chair of the FINRA District Committee for Northern California, Northern Nevada and Hawaii; FINRA is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States [5]; he served on the FINRA Small Firm Advisory Board [6] and he was the Vice Chair of the National Association of Independent Broker/Dealers (NAIBD)[7].
He has taught as an Adjuct Professor at Columbia Business School [8] and is currently an Adjunct Professor at University of San Francisco School of Law [9]. Muh has served as a director of multiple companies including Sizzler International Inc. [10], DayRunner, Inc. [11], SOLA International Inc., and Koo Koo Roo, Inc. [12].
Personal Life
Muh was born January 7, 1938 and raised in Long Island to immigrant Jewish parents from Germany and Austria. He attended MIT where he earned a S.B. in Management in 1959 [13]. He then went to Columbia University where he earned an MBA and a Master of Philosophy degree in Finance [14]. While he was teaching finance at Columbia Business School, he met Berit Spant, a student in operations research at Columbia University Graduate School of Business [15]. They both went to work at McKinsey and were married in 1968. They have two daughters and two grandchildren.
Philanthropy
Muh has made contributions to numerous organizations, mostly in the arts and education. He founded and endowed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Robert A. Muh Alumni Award in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences to honor MIT graduates for significant achievements in humanities, arts, and social sciences fields [16]. Winners of the Robert A. Muh Award have included former Secretary of State George Schultz[17], President of Northeastern University Joseph Aoun, [18][19], and Nobel laureate in Economics Robert C. Merton [20][21]. He has been very involved with his alma mater, MIT, where he is a life member of the MIT Corporation, was a Chair of the Humanities Visiting Committee [22], and serves on several of the school's visiting committees [23]. In 1989, he also established the Robert A. Muh, '59 UROP Fund for MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program "to support research by promising undergraduates in management, economics, or political science" [24]. Muh also serves as a trustee of the Culinary Institute of America where is serves as co-chair of the school's investment committee [25]. Muh and his wife helped to establish a New Works Fund at the San Francisco Ballet [26][27]. Muh served as a trustee and Vice Chair of the Napa Valley Opera House in Napa, CA [28] and the Muhs are donors [29][30] and lifetime members to the Opera House [31]. The Muhs are the founders of the Atlas Peak Foundation in support of the arts.
References
- ^ http://www.finra.org/web/groups/industry/@ip/@reg/@notice/documents/notices/p120603.pdf#Muh
- ^ http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1992/elected-0603.html
- ^ http://www.suttersecurities.com/content/staff_rmuh.htm
- ^ http://www.suttersecurities.com/Staff/staff_rmuh.html
- ^ http://www.finra.org/
- ^ http://www.finra.org/web/groups/industry/@ip/@reg/@notice/documents/notices/p120603.pdf#Muh
- ^ http://www.naibd.com/Board.htm#muh
- ^ http://www7.gsb.columbia.edu/alumni/news/Bob-Muh-61-Berit-Spant-Muh-66
- ^ http://www.usfca.edu/law/investorjustice/
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_May_30/ai_19454807/
- ^ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=560415&privcapId=2410201&previousCapId=19691&previousTitle=CISCO%20SYSTEMS%20INC
- ^ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/KOO+KOO+ROO,+INC.+ELECTS+ROBERT+MUH+AND+ROBERT+KAUTZ,+CFO,+TO+ITS...-a017855004
- ^ http://shass.mit.edu/community/muh
- ^ http://shass.mit.edu/community/muh
- ^ http://www7.gsb.columbia.edu/alumni/news/Bob-Muh-61-Berit-Spant-Muh-66
- ^ http://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2011-robert-muh-alumni-award-about
- ^ http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/shultz-0402.html
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Aoun
- ^ http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/aoun-muh-alumni-award.html
- ^ http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facEmId=rmerton&facInfo=bio
- ^ http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/muh-award-0223.html
- ^ http://mitworld.mit.edu/series/view/143
- ^ http://shass.mit.edu/community/muh
- ^ http://mit.edu/urop/modes/awards.html#Morris
- ^ http://culinary.imodules.com/s/898/images/editor_documents/advancement/annual_report08.pdf
- ^ http://www.sfballet.org/donate/endowment_foundation/endowed_funds
- ^ http://www.sfballet.org/res/pdfs/legacynews/Legacy_News_winter08.pdf
- ^ http://nvoh.org/index.php/information
- ^ http://napavalleyregister.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/the-perils-and-pearls-of-a-classical-concert/article_889ac026-974d-5bf2-8617-cf6fe90deb20.html
- ^ http://napavalleyregister.com/inv/entertainment/attractions/napa-valley-opera-house-celebrates-its-th-anniversary/article_10fe1b6b-1de0-5f56-bbeb-84eeac4beb28.html
- ^ http://www.nvoh.org/index.php/component/content/article/445
External Links
1. Official site of Sutter Securities, Inc.
3. Napa Valley Register article; Arts patron to narrate Boston Pops
4. Napa Valley Register article; The perils and pearls of a classical concert