Rob began his career with Brown & Root, Inc. in 1975 in Project Controls, following graduation from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1983, Rob accepted the position of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer with The R.B. Lewis Company, a real estate development company. After receiving his MBA, Rob returned to Brown & Root in 1987 and was placed in charge of all activities related to the development of proposals for onshore projects, where he gained experience in structuring EPC contracts. In 1992 Rob was named Managing Director of Engineering Consulting Services for Brown & Root, wherein he was responsible for the conduct of independent due diligence efforts on behalf of major financial institutions, and supervised the evaluation of over 75 projects in more than a dozen countries. Rob joined Baker & O'Brien in 1998, where his project finance and synthetic lease transaction experience includes the valuation of a deep water gathering system in the Gulf of Mexico, petrochemical complexes in Brazil and China, a refinery and an ammonia plant in Egypt as well as an alumina refinery in Guinea, West Africa. Rob’s experience also includes an insurance subrogation lawsuit in Guam, and an EPC contract dispute arbitration in Australia.

You can contact Rob at: wrd@bakerobrien.com