Robert Larkins biography: 13 things about Marin County, California native

Robert Larkins was born in Marin County, California, United States to William Larkins and Barbara Joan Zaro. Williams, who was born in San Francisco, California, is a former Marine and businessman and Zaro was an elementary school teacher.

Who is Robert Larkins?

Robert has extensive experience with enterprise fund credits and tax allocation bonds. He spent his entire 33-year career in California.

Over Robert’s career, he has participated in 55 pension obligation bonds totaling a par amount of more than $15.5 billion. He worked as a managing director in San Francisco for Wedbush Securities and helped lead an expansion of the firm’s municipal business.

After working for Wedbush Securities, Robert was hired by Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., a wealth management and capital market firm headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, as a managing director and head of its new public finance office in San Francisco. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He has two brothers namely William Larkins Jr. and Paul Larkins and one sister named Joan Larkins Robertson.
2. In 1984, he earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University in Stanford, California. He was a member of the university’s Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
3. From 1988 to 2003, he worked as a managing director at Morgan Stanley & Co., a multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
4. From 2003 to 2008, he worked at Lehman Brothers, a global financial services firm headquartered in New York.
5. In 2010, he served as lead banker on two significant financings for the Regents of the University of California in Oakland, California.
6. In November 2011, he told Business Wire that he joined Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc. because of its “fantastic distribution capabilities and corporate culture that values hard work, professional candor, client service and doing first class business in a first class way.”
7. In 2012, he joined Raymond James. He served as a managing director and the western region manager for the firm’s public finance practice, let its national tobacco securitization effort and co-led its national Pension/OPEB funding team.
8. On October 7, 2016, his father died in San Rafael, California.
9. On August 2, 2019, he and his wife Lisa Alexander attended the cocktail reception and dinner for the sponsors of the 50th anniversary of the League to Save Lake Tahoe Fashion Show in Incline Village, Lake Tahoe, Washoe County, Nevada, USA.
10. On June 9, 2020, he and Alexander confronted James Juanillo outside Juanillo’s property in Pacific Heights, San Francisco and accused Juanillo of defacing private property. Juanillo filmed the incident and the video quickly went viral.
11. On June 15, 2020, Raymond James fired him.
12. Through a public records request, the audio of the call was obtained by the San Francisco Examiner on July 9, 2020. In the call, he referred to Juanillo as Hispanic and told the operator, “We were out on a walk and we just asked him ‘Is this your property?’ and he refuses to answer because it’s obviously not. He starts filming us and our only point was ‘Is this your property?’ because if it’s not, it’s not okay to deface private property.’”
13. In 2023, he turned 60.

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— Raymond James (@RaymondJames) June 15, 2020