Robert H. Hacker

I create growth strategies and arrange growth capital; Adjunct Professor at FIU

Robert H. Hacker manages GH Capital. He has an extensive background as an international finance executive and strategy consultant. During his thirty-year career, he has raised over $1.2 billion in capital, served as the CFO of a publicly-traded company and managed an emerging market company in Asia. He has arranged one IPO and three secondary equity offerings in public markets.

Bob managed an emerging market company that grew from $40 million to $1 billion in annual revenues in seven years and was publicly traded. He has served as a Chief Financial Officer for 14 years for both startups and mature companies. Bob provided strategy consulting for 10 years to Japanese Fortune 500 companies, including Marubeni Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation, Daiei, Fujitsu, Nisho Iwai, and UNY. He began his career as a lending officer with Chase Manhattan Bank serving public sector and private companies in Latin America.

He has wide ranging industry experience, including telecommunications, IT and network infrastructure, retailing, fashion & beauty, printing and business services. He has worked extensively in Asia and Latin America and speaks fluent Spanish.

As an Adjunct Professor at Florida International University (FIU), Bob teaches courses in small business management and entrepreneurship and is a frequent speaker on business models and business plans. He is a member of the Board of the Eugenio Pino & Family Global Entrepreneurship Center at FIU. He earned a Masters of Business Administration in Finance with Honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Hamilton College.

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