Rob Heyvaert, Motive Partners Founder: Investing Billions to Build the Future of Finance

About this episode

Rob Heyvaert discusses his journey in fintech and the impact of Motive Partners in the finance industry.

Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Rob Heyvaert, Founder and Managing Partner of Motive Partners, a fintech-focused private equity firm with over $6Bn in AUM, 80 portfolio companies representing over $15 trillion of assets in the wealth management space. Rob is a serial entrepreneur who started his first company at 24, sold it to IBM, and later founded Capco and sold to FIS to hundreds of millions of dollars, before launching Motive in 2016. He is a true fintech builder and it was inspiring to ...

People in this episode

Host: Miguel Armaza

Guest: Rob Heyvaert

Topics covered

• fintech
• private equity
• wealth management
• entrepreneurship
• investment

Keywords

• fintech
• private equity
• Motive Partners
• investment
• wealth management
• entrepreneurship
• Rob Heyvaert

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Motive Partners, IBM, Capco, FIS

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