Meet The Team

With over twenty years of experience working with wealthy families in a team environment, Robert directs the firm’s client service and engagement activities and oversees the firm’s operations. He brings a deep knowledge of investment and balance sheet management to each client relationship and helps customize each client’s asset allocation to their unique expectations and tolerances. Robert also designs and delivers customized content to develop financial literacy and risk management in the rising generation of family members. He is chairman of the firm’s executive committee and sits on the investment committee. Over the past decade, he has become a recognized leader and contributor in the family office space regionally and nationally, frequently participating in panels and leading breakout sessions on various investment and family office topics. He has also been featured in various investment-related media.

During Robert’s 22-year career at Bank of America and its predecessor companies, he served clients in eastern North Carolina and later in the Greater Los Angeles area. Robert earned his B. A. in History cum laude from Davidson College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He holds an Executive M.B.A. from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also completed executive education and investment curricula at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife and daughter.

Emily serves as the chief investment officer and chair of the investment committee at the firm. In her role, Emily provides oversight and guidance in managing and coordinating all aspects of investment activities and strategies consistent with its mission, objectives, and established policies. Prior to joining the firm, Emily was an Investment Officer at Oklahoma State University and a Vice President within the Investment Management Group at Hatteras Funds where she focused on sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management of alternative investments strategies across public and private asset classes. Emily received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Randolph Macon College with majors in both Business/Economics and Accounting.

Emily also obtained her Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in finance from the University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School. Emily is a CFA® charterholder and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.

Dawn serves as chief financial officer as well as chief compliance officer, and sits on the firm’s executive committee. In her role, she plans, directs and supervises the company’s financial affairs to include financial reporting, tax compliance, benefits administration and business planning.

Dawn is originally from Raleigh, NC, and has over 22 years of experience in the financial services industry. She came to the firm from The Carlyle Group in Washington, DC, where she was the accounting manager for the firm’s U.S. Buyout funds (approximately $30 billion of combined capital). She is a graduate of North Carolina State University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting in 2002. Dawn began her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), providing tax consulting, financial planning, and accounting services to private equity/venture capital funds and high net-worth individuals.

While employed with PwC, she completed her graduate studies at the University of Virginia and received a Master of Science in Accounting in 2004.

Emily serves as a Senior Analyst on the investment team at the firm. In her role, she is involved in all aspects of the investment process including diligencing prospective investment opportunities and managing existing investments. Prior to joining Gilder Partners, Emily was an Associate at GMB Capital Partners where she was involved in the underwriting and monitoring of the firm’s debt and equity investments. She began her career as an Investment Banking Analyst within Janney Montgomery Scott’s Financial Institutions Group providing capital markets and M&A advisory services. Emily earned her B.A. in Economics from Davidson College.

Beth manages workflow related to client service, business development, and marketing. She also coordinates logistics, travel and provides internal administrative support. Prior to joining the firm, Beth worked for Balanced Scorecard Institute as Director of Client and Corporate Services where she served as the primary link to its customers, affiliates and other key stakeholders by managing customer service & long-term relationships, proposal writing and contract administration & evaluation.

Beth also has experience in marketing and media services, advertising, sales, and event planning. She has degrees in Biology and Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ginny Gilder has started several entrepreneurial ventures, both businesses and non-profits. Today she is principal of the Gilder family investment office, Gilder Office for Growth, LLC, and president of one of her family’s philanthropic entities, the Starfish Group. In addition, she is a leading member of Force 10 Hoops, LLC, which owns the WNBA’s Seattle franchise, the Storm, and serves on both the league’s Executive Committee and Labor Relations Committee. She established Washington Works, a local non-profit dedicated to assisting welfare recipients obtain and retain livable-wage employment, and served as its first Executive Director. She has also served on various non-profit boards, locally and around the country, all focused on education or sports.

A rower, she earned four varsity letters at Yale University, and was an All-Ivy Champion twice. Her freshman year she helped usher in the post-Title IX era at Yale by participating in the now-famous women’s crew strip-in protesting the lack of equal facilities. Ginny represented the United States on four national teams, including two Olympic teams. She was named to the U.S. team which boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games and won a silver medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984. She has helped launch two community rowing programs, one in Boston, MA and another in Derby, CT. She received an NCAA Silver Anniversary Award for community service in 2004. In 2015, she received the George H.W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award from Yale University and the U.S. Rowing Jack Kelly Award.