Great Gray Trust Company
Rob Barnett currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer at Great Gray Trust Company, a position held since April 2023. Prior to this role, Rob Barnett spent 17 years at Wilmington Trust, where responsibilities included Head of Retirement Distribution, Product Leader for the CIT business, and Sales Leader. Earlier career experiences include Custody Sales at Fidelity Investments from 2004 to 2006 and Client Services/Sales at Morley Financial Services from 2000 to 2004. Rob Barnett holds a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Washington State University.
Great Gray Trust Company
Great Gray is a leader in the collective investment trust (CIT) market with over $143 billion in collective investment fund assets, across funds managed by 70+ sub-advisors and maintains trading agreements with 40 trading platforms that access 200+ recordkeepers as of 9/30/23. We offer CITs across platforms representing most investment style categories including target-date and hard-asset funds. CITs are listed on NASDAQ and are valued daily; in fact, our President & CEO, Rob Barnett, was the first to enhance CIT transparency by listing 625+ searchable tickers through the Nasdaq Fund Network (NFN). Our legacy originated with Great Gray's predecessor (Wilmington Trust), a venerable institution steeped in fiduciary heritage. This foundation enabled us to be laser-focused on the future of CITs, while delivering industry-leading solutions and service as Great Gray. Innovation drives us. While fiduciary strength and expertise is in our DNA, it is our technological strength and innovative thinking that differentiates us from the rest. We take pride in being pioneers in the industry showcasing first-of-its-kind technological advances, such as boardingpass™, an innovative solution for streamlining CIT onboarding. Great Gray is focused on taking a modernized and fresh approach to developing innovative solutions for our clients that drive results. In fact, the great gray owl itself was meticulously selected to align with our organization — resilient, powerful, stable, decisive, a bit enigmatic, and a stronghold in the wild.