Bob Welch

Background

About Bob Welch

Welch has been active in many aspects of the financial industry and the community for over thirty-five years, working on several hundred transactions with billions of dollars in value. Currently Welch has founded and heads up Skellig Capital Advisors, an independent capital markets strategic financial advisory firm that advises established companies in a variety of industries that are pursuing a) the sale of all or a part of the business, b) the acquisition of a strategic business, or c) growth or recapitalization capital and structuring. Skellig brings decades of experience and expertise to Midwestern companies with enterprise values of $25 million to $1 billion or more. Prior to Skellig, Welch founded and headed up an investment banking division at two regional firms, Noyes (7 yrs) and City Securities (14 yrs). The focus of both firms was like that of Skellig. Prior to this, Welch headed and re-engineered the Indiana Housing Finance Authority (a >$1bn 'bank' where he brought more than $750 million complex taxable and tax-exempt fixed income financings to the public markets, helped to facilitate the development of billions of dollars’ worth of apartment developments, and engineered indenture and general obligation ratings upgrades from the major debt rating agencies). Earlier in his career, he was a commercial lender at Continental Bank in Chicago and on the finance team of Delta Faucet Company, a primary subsidiary of Masco Corporation. Welch is an Indianapolis native and holds a MBA from Indiana University and a BBA Finance from the University of Notre Dame where he was a walk-on football player. Welch holds a Series 7, 63, and 24. He is and has been active with many community organizations, serving on the boards of the Indiana Public Employees Retirement Fund, the Indiana Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (chair), Cathedral High School, the Indianapolis Private Industry Council (chair), the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership, the Athletic Club Foundation (chair), and the Penrod Arts Fair (past president), to name a few. He currently serves on several corporate boards and he and his wife, Sue, have four children. Registered Representative of and Securities offered through Kittle Capital Markets, LLC Member FINRA SIPC Skellig Capital Advisors and Kittle Capital Markets, LLC are separate and unaffiliated entities. Any testimonial or endorsement may not be representative of the experience of other customers and is no guarantee of future performance or success.