Bob Marino
Vice Chairman
Bob is the Vice Chairman and a Managing Director of Epta Capital Management, and a member of the Investment Committee of the Epta Capital Management Fund.
Bob has spent his entire 40-year career in financial services.
Most recently, Bob has served as Chairman of Trusted Land Transfer, a roll up of title insurance companies in the Mid-Atlantic Region, that provides commercial and residential title insurance to financial service companies and real estate professionals.
Prior to Trusted Land Transfer, Bob was Vice Chairman and President of Huntingdon Valley Bank (HVB) a $600 million in asset community bank located in the Philadelphia market. While at HVB he helped over a 5-year period to build out a commercial banking team, open ancillary lines of business, doubling the bank’s size and facilitating a sale in 2023 to Citizen’s Financial Services, Inc. at 1.65 multiple to book value. After the sale Bob was appointed to the Citizen’s Financial Board of Directors where he served until leaving to found Trusted Land Transfer.
Before joining HVB, Bob was a founder, member of the Board and President of Spring Garden Capital. Spring Garden is private lender that has provided funding for more than $1 billion in real estate development projects in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Baltimore and Pittsburgh markets. In 2024 Spring Garden sold to OceanFirst Bank at a 1.9 multiple to common book value.
Bob is also the principal of Broad Street Consulting Advisors. Broad Street has been engaged by the CEOs of 10 publicly traded or privately held banks to help to, with among other things, recruit teams of business producers, increase deposits and position for a liquidity event.
From 2010 to 2014 Bob was a member of the Board and President of Valley Green Bank. During his tenure he helped the bank quadruple its assets, raise additional equity, develop a municipal deposit program and position the bank for sale. Valley Green Bank sold to Univest Bank and Trust Co. at a 2.35 multiple to book value in 2015.
Prior to Valley Green, Bob also held executive positions with National Penn Bank and Meridian Bank both head quartered in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
