Robert Wartchow

Robert is originally from St Petersburg, Florida and grew up in Florida and then Atlanta, Georgia. He went to Davidson College for university where he received a BA in Economics followed by business school at Columbia University in New York City where he received his MBA in 2007. His wife, Nicole, and Robert moved to London in 2007, and they have lived in the Belsize Park and Hampstead area ever since. From 2007 until 2020, Robert worked in investment banking for Deutsche Bank and then Credit Suisse in their European Leveraged Finance teams where he arranged debt financing for companies and private equity firms to support corporate M&A and other corporate actions. Since 2020, Robert has worked as a Portfolio Manager for a London based asset management company called Pemberton Asset Management with ca. $30bn of AuM. At Pemberton, Robert manages a private credit fund that lends to companies operating across a variety of industries based in the UK and Western Europe. The family are parishioners at St Mary’s Hampstead. Robert and Nicole have been a mentor couple presenting the parish’s Marriage Preparation course since 2009. He is also a reader at Saturday evening mass. Robert’s daughter, Georgia, attended St Mary’s for nursery and years 5 and 6. She is now in her second year as a weekly boarder at Woldingham School. His son, Quinn, also attended nursery at St Mary’s before attending St Anthony’s Prep School in Hampstead.