American businessman Robert Gillam has an estimated net worth of $700 million. He is the founder of McKinley Capital Management, LLC, a successful Alaskan investment firm. Currently, he serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer who is responsible for overall corporate strategy, planning and oversight of operational and investment management activities.

Robert Byron Gillam has earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics, with concentration in Finance and Commerce, from the Wharton School of Business in Pennsylvania. He later earned his M.B.A. from the University of California – Los Anegeles.

Mr. Gillam has around four decades of experience in the financial service industry. He began his professional work with the firm, Foster and Marshall where he has served as their first Vice President. In 1975, he moved on to the government of Alaska where he was appointed member of the Alaska State Investment Advisory Committee by the Governor.

In 1982, Bob Gillam became the General Partner of Boettcher and Company, an investment-banking firm. A year after, he became an Allied Member of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1988, he began to incorporate Modern Portfolio Theory via quantitative computer models into active portfolio management. His experience and achievement became the foundation of McKinley’s quantitative investment methodology.