Primary Job Title Managing Partner & Founder Primary Organization
Olympus Partners
Gender Male
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Mr. Robert S. Morris, Rob, is a Managing Partner and Managing Principal at Olympus Partners. Mr. Morris founded Olympus Partners in 1988. He serves as a Managing Partner at Olympus Partners’s affiliated investment partnerships. From 1978 to 1988, he held a variety of management positions in various manufacturing and financial services businesses at
General Electric Corporation. Most recently, he was the Senior Vice President at GE Investments (formerly General Electric Investment Management Corporation) where he managed General Electric Pension Trust's $1.6 billion private equity portfolio. Mr. Morris served as the Chairman of the Board of Symmetry Medical Inc. until March 2006 and its Director since October 2000 until March 2006. He serves as a Director of Waddington, Woodcraft Industries, Professional Service Industries, Inc., Homax Products, Inc., NPC Acquisition Holdings, LLC, Homax Holdings Inc., NPC International, Shemin Holdings Corp., Shemin Nurseries, Client Distribution Services, Churchill Financial Group, Inc., and Club Staffing. He has been a Director of WII Components Inc. since January 2007. Mr. Morris also serves on the Board of Directors and is a Trustee of Hamilton College Endowment Fund. He is the Chairman Emeritus of the Board of The Waterside School and previously served as the Chairman. He was a Director at Candlewood Hotel Co. Inc. and Vesta Medical LLC. He is featured as a guest lecturer in the private equity courses at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Amos Tuck School of Business. Mr. Morris holds an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and an A.B. from Hamilton College.
