Robert Wolf

Robert Wolf is the Founder of 32 Advisors, a holding company which includes the direct investing arm 32 Ventures and advisory services for corporate clients on financial matters, risk, and governance.  Robert was named Chairman of the AI-driven messaging software platform Community in late 2022. Starting in the 2025, Robert will be a Visiting Presidential Fellow at Suffolk University teaching the honor’s  course “Power, Policy, and Profit: Navigating Business in a Politically Charged World”.

Prior to forming 32 Advisors, Robert spent 18 years at UBS, a global financial services firm. While at the firm, he held several senior positions including Chairman and CEO of UBS Americas and President and Chief Operating Officer of the Investment Bank. He joined UBS in 1994 after spending 10 years at Salomon Brothers.

In November 2022, Robert was appointed by President Biden to the Pentagon’s Defense Business Board and prior to that he held three Presidential appointments under President Obama: as a member of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board from 2009-2011, the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness from 20112013 and the Export Council from 2014-2016. In 2012 Robert was on the Homeland Security Advisory Council's Border Infrastructure Task Force.

Currently, Robert serves on the Board of Directors of the Obama Foundation, on the Alumni Board of the Wharton School and on the Leadership Council of NYC’s Robin Hood Foundation. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and the Partnership for NYC. Robert formerly served as Vice Chairman of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights as a member of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ transition team and on the Economic Advisory Council for the Center for American Progress, on the boards of the Undergraduate Executive Board of the Wharton School, Children's Aid Society, Athletics Board of Overseers at the University of Pennsylvania, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and Financial Services Roundtable.

Robert was named multiple times to Worth Magazine's 100 Most Powerful People in Finance. In 2016, Robert joined Fox News/Fox Business as a contributor, where he can be seen multiple times per week on the network. In 2014, Robert was co-Founder and Chairman of Measure, an aerial intelligence company specializing in drone technology which was acquired in 2021.

Robert is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a B.S. in Economics. While at UPenn, he played on the varsity football team that won IVY League Championships in both the 1982 and 1983 seasons, was an honoree into the Ivy Football Association in 2013 and currently a member of the UPenn Football Board.

In May 2014, Robert received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Wharton School.  In May 2024, while giving the commencement speech at the Suffolk University Sawyer Business School, he received an honorary Doctorate of Commercial Science degree. Robert was born and raised in Marblehead, MA and is in the town's Athletics Hall of Fame, and currently resides in Westchester County, NY.