Robert Hutchins

Chief Executive Officer, Ellavoz Impact Capital

Mr. Hutchins is Chief Executive Officer of Ellavoz Impact Capital and the Managing Director for the ELLAVOZ Shared Values Opportunity Funds, ELLAVOZ Neighborhood Homes Fund and ELLAVOZ Impact Angel Network.  He is a retired Partner of WithumSmith+Brown which is a top 20 national CPA firm. He graduated from St. Peter’s College and began his professional career with Price Waterhouse & Co., in Hackensack, New Jersey. Prior to combining his accounting practice with WSB, he was managing partner of Hutchins, Farrell, Meyer & Allison.  Mr. Hutchins is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, as well as the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. 

Mr. Hutchins was co-founder and executive chairman of Biofortis, Inc. (www.biofortis.com), a bio-informatics company which acquired IP from Johns Hopkins University and subsequently was sold to a NYSE company in 2018.  He has served on the board of directors of both public and private companies.  As an entrepreneur, he has been an angel investor as well as executive leadership in real estate, hospitality, digital healthcare and life science companies.  Mr. Hutchins has been, for over 20 years, the managing director of Helensburgh Capital. 

Mr. Hutchins’ professional experience includes tax advisory and financial planning for high-net-worth individuals and their family-owned businesses; as well as a tax and impact investment advisor to single family offices for their private equity and direct real estate investments.  In addition, he has served as financial advisor in the private placement of securities and public offering of debt. He has served as an advisor for business acquisitions, turnarounds, sales and succession planning. Mr. Hutchins has been appointed by the courts as an expert in business valuation, economic damage measurement and receiver or mediator for business litigation matters.

In his community, Mr. Hutchins is a founder, president and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ocean Housing Alliance, Inc., a non-profit organization operating a 48-bed residential health care facility and low-income housing for mentally disabled individuals in Ocean County, New Jersey. Mr. Hutchins is also a co-founder and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Joan Dancy & P.A.L.S., an ALS Support Group Charity in Monmouth County. Mr. Hutchins is a trustee and Finance Chairperson at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ.  He is past Chairman of the American Cancer Society - Ocean Unit and served on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Division of the American Cancer Society. Mr. Hutchins is a lifetime member of the ACS, Laureate Society and is currently Co-Chair of the Mid-Atlantic Pay-If Council of donors.