Bob Swindell joined Watch Hill Partners as a Partner in June 2008. Prior to joining Watch Hill, Mr. Swindell was the CEO of Civitas Group LLC, an advisory business focused on national and homeland security. In January 2008, he became the Chairman of Civitas Group. Prior to Civitas, Mr. Swindell spent 17 years as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and 5 years at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. At Lehman Brothers he served as the head of the U.S. Technology Banking, Global Consumer/Industrial and Debt Capital Markets groups within investment banking. Mr. Swindell has extensive capital markets and corporate finance experience, having initiated or executed more than 200 transactions in all product areas. Mr. Swindell currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Benefactors Society at the University of Virginia’s College of Arts and Sciences and the Board of Trustees of Greenwich Country Day School. He has a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.