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A proven leader and successful business builder, Robbins is now focused on funding innovatons and broader Company developments through advisory/board service, assistance with private debt, equity, and “angel” financing.  KARobbins LLC is actively involved in banking, insurance, asset or investment management, non-bank healthcare & litigation finance, as well as leasing and/or factoring of receivables.  (see Company Clients).

 

PREVIOUSLY

As past Chairman/CEO, Robbins grew Security Benefit Corp. into a leading diversified holding company (Jul ‘97 – Feb ‘10) from $7 billion in assets under management to over $40 billion and over $50 billion under administraton (5X increases). He transformed a mono-line 

company, by broadening its retirement and mutual funds platform, created its new technology services division, who’s first client was Goldman Sachs.  He announced the company’s sale to Guggenheim Partners and his retirement March 2010. Under Robbins, Security Benefit's Net Sales grew from $0.7 billion to nearly $3 billion annually with operations throughout the U.S. and overseas.

 

Technology innovation, like the company’s patented annuity trade processing, helped fuel exponential revenue growth, yet a low cost infrastructure improved its profitability and spawned a tech servicing division which added over $50 million in annual revenue it’s first three years.  In 2003 Forrester Research named it one of the top 5 most innovative U.S. IT Companies.  CIO Magazine named it one of the Top 100 Most Agile IT companies (2004) in the U.S.  Robbins was named by Ernst and Young as an Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 and he was entered into the Topeka Kansas Business Hall of Fame in 2008.

 

Prior to Security Benefit, Robbins helped build Institutional assets from $4.5 billion to $33 billion, at the Providian Corporation (now AEGON) in Louisville, Kentucky (from '87-'97), reaching $100 mil. in annual profits.  Before entering financial services, Robbins worked in business strategy for the microprocessor division of Texas Instruments (TXN, 1983-­‐1985).

 

Robbins is best known for leading innovation, such as; the first long/short hedge fund strategy into an open-­‐ended Mutual Fund, the use of trade-­able and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in retirement products. He is also credited with developing the first Book Value Wrappers (synthetic GICs) in 1991 for 401k plans, and in 1985 developed one of the first proprietary insurance asset/liability risk analysis toolsets. ​​​​​​​​​​