Bob Monks

Bob Monks

Bob Monks is the Founder and Chairman of ValueEdge Advisors. He is a globally respected author, and pioneering practitioner in corporate governance. Mr. Monks is an advisor to Trucost, the environmental research company and is a co-founder of GMIRatings (formerly The Corporate Library). He is also the founder of Lens Governance Advisors, a law firm that advises on corporate governance in the settlement of shareholder litigation.

Bob Monks was the founder and president of Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. He founded the investment fund known as LENS, which since 1992 has developed the “institutional activist” mode of investment. Mr. Monks served as the President of Henley Management College’s Center for Board Effectiveness from 2000 to October 2003. He is also the board chairman of Governance for Owners – G40 – for both the London and U.S. based share-ownership services venture.

He is a graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge University and Harvard Law School. Bob Monks was a partner in a Boston law firm and served as vice president of Gardner Associates, an investment management company. He was president and chief executive officer of C.H.Sprague & Son Company and served as a board member and chairman of the Board of The Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Company and the Boston Company. He served as director of the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation through appointment by President Reagan who also appointed him one of the founding Trustees of the Federal Employees’ Retirement System. He served in the Department of Labor as Administrator of the Office of Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs having jurisdiction over the entire U.S. pension system.