Rob Slee is Founder of MidasNation, a community dedicated to helping business owners dramatically increase the value of their firms. Rob has authored more than two hundred fifty articles on private finance topics in a variety of legal and business journals. Rob's book, Private Capital Markets, was published in mid-2004 by John Wiley & Sons and is now considered the seminal work in finance for private companies. Law schools and MBA programs around the world use this book in a new course of the same name. A second edition of this book was released in May, 2011. Rob's second book, Midas Managers, was released in 2007 and describes how super-successful private business owners create substantial wealth in a global economy. Rob's current book, Midas Marketing: How Midas Managers Make Markets, was released in March, 2009. Rob has two more books being released in 2011/12. The first is the M&A Handbook for the Middle Market (Wiley), and Midas Metrics (Burn the Boats Press).Rob is an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University and Pepperdine Universities, and co-teaches a course at both schools on mergers and acquisitions. He speaks each year more than 60 times to trade associations, family and entrepreneurial programs, legal, CPA, and valuation conferences. Rob is also President of Robertson & Foley, a middle market private investment bank. Robertson & Foley raises substantial amounts of private capital each year, provides certified business valuations, and advises on the transfer of middle market businesses.Rob co-architected the Pepperdine Cost of Capital Surveys in 2009 and co-created the Private Cost of Capital discount rate model. He has been a Certified Business Appraiser for more than 15 years.Rob is a board member of numerous professional associations and private companies. He has owned equity positions in a variety of mid-sized private businesses. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University, and received a Master's degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.But Rob is still best known as the father of Jen and Jessie Slee, his identical twin daughters.