Bob Hellman

Overview

Bob has been a private equity investor for 25 years. He co founded the American Infrastructure MLP Funds and was responsible for inventing the pioneering idea of applying the MLP structure to the death care industry which led to the 2004 IPO of StoneMor Partners the first non natural resource related MLP offering in over a decade. He has been an investor and director in a wide variety of industries including building materials forest products energy production and distribution office supplies printing apparel death care health and fitness entertainment and direct marketing.Prior to founding AIM he was with McCown De Leeuw & Co a middle market private equity firm. Earlier in his career he gained substantial experience in mergers acquisitions and business strategy through his work as a consultant with Bain & Company where he focused on expansion strategies cost reduction and acquisition analysis.