Anthony S. Rust

Mr. Rust joined RBC GAM (US) in 2010.
Prior to that, he was with Newport Capital, Inc., a capital and private markets firm that specialized in serving institutional investors.
As president, he was responsible for managing and operating the firm, which successfully structured and placed more than $4.5 billion in capital transactions.
He was also a senior managing partner of Newport’s private equity fund of funds investment management business, which specialized in socially responsible investing, and buyout fund and venture capital investments.
As an SRI professional, he invested more than $100 million into private equity and venture capital in low-to moderate-income communities across the country, helping to create quality jobs and businesses, sustain and grow existing businesses, and generate double and triple bottom line returns that positively impacted the communities he invested in and the lives of the people who lived and worked in those communities.
Before that, he was an investment banker at First Albany Corporation.
Mr. Rust earned a B.A.
in Political Science from Tufts University and an M.P.S.
in Political Management from The George Washington University/SUNY Graduate School of Political Management.
He is the founder and Chairman of The Last Shall Be First Foundation and is involved with the South Kingstown Senior Center and the Boys & Girls Club of Newport County.