MEET ROBERT "BOB" WYNN
Founder, Director
Robert Wynn is a pioneer and innovator in community and economic development.
Prior to opening his own businesses, Mr. Wynn created a number of financial education programs while he was the Financial Education Officer at the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions. These programs include such widely recognized projects as the Money Conferences, the Millionaires Clubs®, the Finance and Investment Challenge Bowls®, CLIMB® and the Intelligent Arts Showcase®. Mr. Wynn also led the creation and coordination of the first ever “Governor’s Summit on Venture Capital” which helped to enhance the private investment infrastructure for the State of Wisconsin.
Earlier in his career, as Director of Minority Business Development at the Wisconsin Department of Commerce, Mr. Wynn developed the policy and legislative framework that established the Early Planning Grant and Minority Business Development Funds. These novel sources of capital for minority owned businesses provided a total of ten million dollars, and leveraged an additional seventy million dollars for the benefit of hundreds of minority owned firms while creating or retaining 2800 jobs.
Mr. Wynn is the owner of two businesses. Akamai is a business and community development consulting firm, and ProSquared LLC, which is a financial education and wealth development company that focuses on the unique needs and opportunities of athletes. Prior to establishing ProSquared, Mr. Wynn lead the creation of the first ever (compliance approved) investment club in which all of the members were Division I student athletes.
In addition, Mr. Wynn is the founder of a number of other entities and programs, all geared toward community development and economic empowerment. These include - Akamai LLC, a business consulting firm; Asset Builders of America Inc., a non profit financial education organization; Urban Economic Development Association, a community development trade association; Halifax Institute, an urban think tank; Pipeline to Wall Street, a program to foster more diversity in the financial services industry; and the Land Rich, an initiative to help low wealth land owners to understand and develop the value of their inherited land.
Mr. Wynn earned his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina where he was a Morehead Scholar, and he earned his law degree from the University of Michigan. He is passionate about investment education and he formerly served on the national board of directors of Better Investing. He is a former member of the Federal Reserve’s Consumer Advisory Council where he elevated the visibility of the financial education movement.
Bob is the recipient of several awards, including the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Minority Advocate of the Year and Better Investing’s George Nicholson Award for Promoting Investment Education. His influence and economic impact will be sustained through the entities and policies which he championed and nurtured over his many years of leadership and service.
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The Sports Industry has at least a $50 Billion dollar annual impact on the United States’ economy. That’s somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 Trillion dollars over a 20 year period. Professional athletes’ salaries and their ancillary support resources represent a significant percentage of this “river of wealth”. The problem is that the flow of this wealth has a one way direction as professional athletes’ income jets away from wealth preservation toward spend thrift frivolity and graft. And even though college athletes are the well spring of billions of dollars annually, they don’t receive a fraction of the income they help to generate, other than a tuition scholarship.
