Robert CS (Bobby) Monks is a real estate developer and entrepreneur highly regarded for his success in attracting capital for a wide range of business ventures. Bob and his partners have developed a sustainable model for success: sharing the risk and the rewards of business ventures in which they have expertise improves the likelihood of favorable results. He and his partners have founded numerous real estate companies, a commercial bank and the world's largest proxy services company.
Bobby Monks is a founder and active partner in numerous real estate entities. The market value of the aggregated holdings at any one time exceeds $200,000,000 and more than $750,000,000 in real estate value has been under ownership during the course of the last 20 years. Each partnership pursues highly focused segments of the real estate market including market and subsidized housing, commercial and industrial real estate ownership, property management as well as real estate development across the country.
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ISS is the world's leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance services. The company serves more than 1,000 institutional and corporate clients worldwide with its core business — analyzing proxies and issuing informed research and objective vote recommendations for more than 28,000 companies across 102 markets worldwide.
International investment partners at ISS include Warburg Partners and Hermes, the United Kingdom's largest pension fund. Bob and his father (Robert A.G. Monks) were the original directors and operators of ISS, selling the company to Thomson Financial in 1992. Bob Jr. (Robert C.S. Monks) and his partners bought it back in 2001.
A Maine-based commercial bank, Atlantic Bank, NA was founded by Bob and his partners to serve the southern Maine region. In addition to being the managing partner, Bob served as Chair of the Executive Committee. It was sold to Peoples Heritage Bank having amassed more than $500,000,000 in assets in just three years.
Bobby remains heavily involved in democratic politics both in Maine and nationally. In 2004 he helped to lead Maine's fundraising efforts for Senator John Kerry. In 2007 Bobby became Chair of the Obama for Maine Steering Committee which organized (and continues to organize) Maine's campaign and fundraising efforts for the Obama for America campaign. Under Bobby's leadership Maine's fundraising committee raised record-breaking funds including over $250,000 during the 2007 democratic primary and over $1 Million during the 2008 general election.
Affter Barack Obama's historic victory, Bobby served on the adminitration's Houssing and Urban Development (HUD) Transition team. Bobby remains a meber of DNC's National Finance Committee and has been a generous supporter of the Maine and National Democratic Committees as well as Maine's Coordinated Campaign and the Democratic House & Senate Campaign Committees. Bobby's political support and connections to the business community continues to be sought out by any person seeking state, state-wide, or federal office.
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
The Sprauge Corporation
Maine Center for Creativity (Advisory Council)
Natural Resources Council of Maine
University of Southern Maine School of Business (Advisory Council)
Children's Museum of Maine
Spurwink Foundation
Waynflete School
Portland Performing Arts