Money, Markets, and Machines

Managing Wealth in the Age of AI and Uncertainty

Join the Dean's Executive Speaker Series, co-presented with the Saint Mary's FIRE (Finance, Investment, and Real Estate) Club, for an evening with one of Wall Street's most respected voices.

With more than fifty years of experience navigating markets, Robert Gallo has seen cycles, crises, and transformations that few investors can match. In this wide-ranging conversation moderated by Dean Don Gibson, Robert will share his firsthand perspective on the forces reshaping finance today, from the rise of AI and its implications for careers and capital allocation, to the weight of $40 trillion in national debt, the mechanics of fiscal dominance, and what price discovery means in today's markets.

This is a rare opportunity to hear unfiltered insight from someone who has managed money at the highest levels through every kind of market environment imaginable.

About the Speaker

Robert Gallo is a fifty-plus-year Wall Street veteran who began his career at Bank of America in 1970 before joining Merrill Lynch in 1980, where he spent 44 years as a Managing Director. He is credited with creating the Wall Street All-Star Analyst Program, later adopted by the Wall Street Journal, and in 2000 was named one of only four Senior Portfolio Managers in the U.S. out of roughly 25,000 Merrill advisors. He appeared on Forbes and Barron's top advisor rankings every year from their inception until his retirement in 2023.

A longtime basketball coach and active philanthropist, Robert and his wife Cathy are proud parents of four and grandparents of three, rooted in the Alamo community they have called home for decades.