Robert Rough is a Managing Director and Founder of Telos Capital Advisors, LLC, a lower middle market investment banking firm in Dallas, TX. The firm helps entrepreneurs achieve their financial goals through sell-side representation and debt and equity capital raises for growth, dividend recapitalizations or restructurings, especially working with companies needing capital to recover from Covid-19 related issues.
Robert has spent more than thirty years as an intermediary, investor, senior executive, consultant and board member in the middle market space. He has worked on over one hundred transactions, often with primary responsibility for all aspects of the transaction, from deal initiation through acquisition integration. Robert’s industry experience includes Manufacturing, Distribution, Services, Education, Healthcare, Technology, Retail and Consumer Products.
Robert lives in Plano with his wife Lori; they have two adult children. Mr. Rough is a frequent speaker on corporate finance matters and a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Studies programs and in the Executive MBA Program at Baylor University. Robert graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School in Boston, MA. Mr. Rough is a FINRA registered representative holding Series 63, 65, 79, 82 and 24 designations.