Robin Peterson Gibbs has three decades of experience in financial services, wealth management and philanthropy and has advised institutional investors, corporate foundations, ultra-high net worth individuals and families on hundreds of millions of dollars of investments, grants and philanthropic gifts. A former investment banker, Robin leverages her commercial acumen, an extensive worldwide network and reputation, and refined relationship management skills to offer a unique, collaborative lens to successfully understand and counsel her international clients.

Prior to founding Robin Gibbs Philanthropy Advisors (RGPA), Robin served as the Executive Director of Family Philanthropy at Brown University with  responsibility for select international principal level families and alumni and was a lead fundraiser for the $4.0 billion BrownTogether Campaign. Previously, Robin was an Executive Director in the Equities Division of Goldman Sachs working with several of the firm’s top global institutional asset management accounts. Robin started her career in International Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch.

Robin has lived and worked extensively in the U.S., Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.  She is a member of the Corporation of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the world’s leading organization dedicated to ocean research, and a Trustee of The Lighthouse Works, an artist residency program on Fishers Island, NY. 

Robin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration in Finance, cum laude, from Columbia Business School.