Rob Main, CFA is a managing partner and COO at Sustainable Governance Partners (Jasper Street). Rob focuses on board related matters, investor engagement, executive compensation, ESG strategy, and issue & financial activism.
Rob helps our clients with critical ESG strategy issues, board composition & disclosure, compensation governance, and how to optimize engagements with key investors and other stakeholders. He is an active industry thought leader and regularly speaks with executives, directors, investors, and other market participants on important corporate governance and sustainability topics.

Before founding Jasper Street, Rob was the Head of Investment Stewardship for the Americas and Asia at Vanguard. His responsibilities included company engagement, corporate governance research, policy development, proxy voting, and ESG integration. He spoke on behalf of the firm’s stewardship program regularly at industry conferences and events, and actively contributed to thought leadership discussions and publications in industry. Rob’s prior asset management industry experience included roles as director within Vanguard’s investment manager due diligence team, head of active equity product management, and leader of the firm’s new product development efforts.

Rob earned a B.S. from the University of Richmond, and an M.B.A. from Villanova University. He is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia. He has served as adjunct faculty in Villanova University’s M.B.A. program and has guest lectured at Harvard University, Drexel University, and at Villanova’s Charles Widger School of Law. He currently serves on the advisory board for the Markets Advisory Council of the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), the Vinyl Sustainability Council, and practicalesg.com. He enjoys racquet sports, is active in the Unionville youth sports community, and once served as a ball boy for Martina Navratilova.