Stephan Roberts, Director

Stephan joined the Baird public finance team in 1998. Since then he has provided issuers, large and small, with leadership and investment banking expertise.  Stephan provides services to such clients as the cities of Elgin, Freeport, Moline, Rochelle, Rock Falls and Rock Island, the counties of Rock Island and Winnebago and the villages of Antioch, Glen Ellyn, Midlothian, New Lenox and Tinley Park.  He also serves a wide range of Midwestern clients.  He brings innovative ideas to clients’ unique needs and will continue to provide the same level of service to all his clients. Testament to his skills was his participation on The Bond Buyer’s Midwest Regional Deal of the Year Award in 2005 on a complicated pension transaction and National Non-traditional Deal of the Year in 2009 assisting a client with swap counterparty negotiations.  Another of his clients won the award again in 2011 for the National Small Issue Deal of the Year.  Stephan is a graduate of North Central College, in Naperville, Illinois where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with his Bachelor of Science in Finance.