Robert Picard

Robert Picard is Managing Director and Head of Alternative Investments at Hightower Advisors, where he leads the firm's Alternative Investment Platform within the Investment Solutions group. He has over 30 years of experience building multi-billion-dollar alternative investment platforms at firms including The Carlyle Group/Rock Creek, Optima Fund Management, RBC Capital Markets, State Street/InfraHedge, and First Republic Private Wealth Management. He is best known for expanding access to institutional-grade private market investments across private equity, private credit, real estate, and venture capital for wealth management clients.