Robert Rosenkranz

As the founder and CEO of Delphi Financial Group, Inc., Robert Rosenkranz leads a multi-billion dollar financial services firm that oversees a wide variety of insurance industry-related assets. Established in 1987 with the leveraged buyout of Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, Delphi entered the public market in 1990. Since then, Robert Rosenkranz has guided it through 25 years of solid growth. Acquired by Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc., in 2012, the company today manages a portfolio worth $14 billion.

In addition to his duties with Delphi, Robert Rosenkranz has led the Acorn family of investment partnerships for 30 years. This multi-manager program offers a diverse range of investment strategies. Acorn, along with Mr. Rosenkranz’s other affiliated investment projects, manages assets valued in excess of $1 billion.

An alumnus of Yale University, Robert Rosenkranz received his JD from Harvard Law School. Initially, he practiced tax law with Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP; then served as an economist for the RAND Corporation, He began his financial career with Oppenheimer & Co., where he was a general partner before founding his own investment firm, Rosenkranz & Co., in 1978.

In 1985, Robert Rosenkranz established The Rosenkranz Foundation, which has contributed to several organizations and events in support of the arts and public policy research and discourse. The foundation endowed a writer-in-residence position at Yale University and has funded several exhibitions and numerous art acquisitions at such institutions as The Guggenheim, the Harvard Art Museums, and The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Additionally, it sponsors the Intelligence Squared U.S. monthly debate series and supports center-right think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute, Manhattan Institute and Policy Exchange. .

Aside from his foundation, Robert Rosenkranz serves on a variety of committees and boards and has personally funded multiple projects. Once keenly interested in astrophysics, he donated $2 million to Yale to create a program of rigorous courses aimed at broadening non-majors’ understanding of the scientific method and quantitative reasoning. An avid photographer, Mr. Rosenkranz serves on the Visiting Committee for the Department of Photography at The Metropolitan Museum of Art an