R O B E R T   ( B O B )   K O B A Y A S H I
Managing Partner

T 917.639.4108    E bob.kobayashi@nosalpartners.com

Robert (Bob) Kobayashi is a senior partner in the New York office of Nosal Partners LLC, and Managing Partner for the firm's Global Financial Services Practice. He is also a key member of Nosal Partners’ Advanced Technology, Life Sciences, and Private Equity Practices.

Mr. Kobayashi’s client experience includes financial services (commercial banks, asset management firms, broker/dealer, investment banks, and insurance companies), advanced technology, industrial, life sciences, international trading, telecommunications, entertainment, consumer electronics, and transportation organizations. He has over 30 years of international business experience in the financial services industry.

Before joining Nosal Partners, Mr. Kobayashi served as Managing Director of Financial Services and Japanese Business in the New York office of a retained executive search firm. He was previously Managing Director of the Japanese Business Practice at another New York-based boutique executive search firm focusing on the financial services industry.

Prior to his career in executive search, Mr. Kobayashi held several senior executive positions during his 20+ year tenure at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, where he managed the Corporate Banking Divisions in Tokyo and Chicago, the Human Resources Department in New York, and the European Credit Division in London. Mr. Kobayashi helped integrate The Mitsubishi Bank and Bank of Tokyo’s U.S. operations while serving as the bank’s Director of Human Resources in New York. He later managed the bank’s credit portfolio for the telecommunications, entertainment, food, and retail industries for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Mr. Kobayashi graduated from Keio University in Tokyo with a B.A. in Economics, and holds an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business.