• Robert Clayton Lau

Robert Lau is the President and CEO of Clayton, Dunning Global Partners LLC. Mr. Lau is a graduate of Yale University and has graduate training in Economics. He has been involved full time in the investment industry for over 44 years. He has been engaged in a broad range of securities activities, including retail and institutional brokerage, investment management, investment banking and securities research. Mr. Lau’s experience in the investment business began with his training at Merrill Lynch in New York in 1962. He was an account executive at Merrill Lynch. Since then, he has held numerous top management positions at major NYSE member firms.

Mr. Lau was Director of Sales Development and Training at The Robinson-Humphrey Company, Atlanta. He managed the Atlanta office of E.F. Hutton & Company, where he supervised the Southeastern Regional Office and headed retail, institutional and futures sales units. Mr. Lau became a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) in 1974, and later served on the Board of Regents and Faculty of the College for Financial Planning. He trained over 500 Certified Financial Planners in all parts of the CFP curriculum. Mr. Lau was engaged as a financial planning marketing and training consultant by leading NYSE firms, including Merrill Lynch, Shearson American Express and Prudential Securities. He was National Sales Manager at Thomson McKinnon Securities in New York, and as an officer at Oppenheimer & Company in New York, was involved in structuring and marketing privately placed and publicly offered venture capital, real estate, and energy investments. He has headed his own securities and investment advisory firms since 1988, involved in investment banking, institutional sales, investment management and investment research. He holds NASD Series 4 (Options Principal), 7 (Registered Representative), 8 (Branch Manager), 24 (General Principal), 27 (Financial Principal), 63 (Uniform State), 65 (Investment Advisory), and 87 (Research Analyst) Securities Licenses. Mr. Lau is engaged as a securities expert in securities arbitration and litigation and is a member of the NASD Board of Arbitrators.