Bob Auer

Managing Director, Chicago

Bob Auer joined KPMG Corporate Finance in 1994.  His corporate finance experience includes advising companies on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, valuations and strategic assessments.

Prior to joining KPMG Corporate Finance, Bob was a
Director with Duff and Phelps Private Markets in its family business practice.  During his tenure there, Bob was involved with many family businesses developing and implementing exit strategies that would best suit the goals of the business owner.  Prior to Duff and Phelps, he was President of Valtec Associates Inc., a national valuation and business brokerage firm based in Chicago.  This firm merged with Merrill Lynch in 1988 and became its family business ownership successor planning unit.

Bob holds an M.B.A. in Finance from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois and a B.S. degree in Accounting and Marketing from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.