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The team at Skellig Capital Advisors has more than 50 years of experience in providing constructive, value-add solutions for our clients’ objectives.



Skellig Capital Advisors is an investment banking advisory firm that advises established companies pursuing merger and acquisition, recapitalization, or capital raising transactions. We bring decades of experience and expertise to Midwestern companies with enterprise values of $25 million to $1 billion or more. We work with companies to provide trusted advice during times of transition.


The term skellig comes from the Irish Gaelic scelig, which roughly translates to a "splinter of rock in the sea." It is the name given to two small uninhabited islands off the southwest coast of Ireland. For the many immigrants that departed Europe bound for the unknown, untested opportunities in the West, the Skellig Islands were the last land they saw. Like those bits of rock in the north Atlantic, we at Skellig Capital Advisors work hard to be there for our clients as they head into new transitions and opportunities.



Meet our people





Robert V. Welch Jr.



CEO & Managing Director



Mr. Welch has been active in many aspects of the financial industry for over twenty-five years. Currently he heads up Skellig Capital Advisors, a private investment banking advisory firm. Skellig works with midwestern companies of all industries with enterprise values of $25mm to $1bn, providing sell-side, buyside, recapitalization, and capital raising advisory services.


Prior to Skellig, he headed up the investment banking groups of Noyes Group (a 111-year-old investment bank based out of Chicago and Indianapolis) and City Securities Corporation (an 80+ year-old investment bank based out of Indianapolis). In the 1990s he re-engineered and headed the Indiana Housing Finance Authority (a $1 billion “bank” where he brought more than $750 million complex taxable and tax exempt fixed income financings to the public markets, helped to facilitate the development of billions of dollars of apartment developments, and engineered indenture and general obligation ratings upgrades from the major debt rating agencies). Earlier in his career, he worked in corporate lending/finance with Continental Bank in Chicago (now Bank of America) and in the finance division of Delta Faucet Company (a major subsidiary of Masco Corporation).


Mr. Welch is an Indianapolis native and holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Indiana University and a Bachelor’s of Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Notre Dame, where he was a walk-on football player. He is and has been active with many community organizations, including: serving on the boards of the Indiana Public Employee Retirement Fund the Indiana Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (chair) Cathedral High School the Indianapolis Private Industry Council (chair) the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership, the Athletic Club Foundation (chair), and the Penrod Arts Fair (past president). He currently serves on four corporate boards.


Mr. Welch resides with his wife and four children in Indianapolis.


Mr. Welch is a Registered Representative of and Securities are offered through Kittle Capital Markets, LLC. Supervised by the Home Office, located at 310 East 96th Street, Suite 400, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240. Phone Number 317-846-3111. Member FINRA SIPC. Skellig Capital Advisors, LLC and Kittle Capital Markets, LLC are separate and unaffiliated entities.



James M. Huse



Director



Mr. Huse has more than fifteen years’ experience in the investment banking industry, as well as several years’ experience in public accounting.


Prior to joining Skellig Capital Advisors, Mr. Huse served as Vice President of Investment Banking at David A. Noyes & Co., Vice President of Corporate Finance at City Securities and as a senior accountant in the business advisory, assurance, and enterprise risk services practices for Deloitte & Touche, LLP. Throughout his tenure at each of David A. Noyes & Co. and City Securities Corporation, Mr. Huse performed merger & acquisition advisory and capital raising transactions for lower middle market companies. During his tenure at Deloitte & Touche, Mr. Huse served clients of various sizes in the manufacturing, insurance, and financial services industries, assisting in initial public offerings and bankruptcies.


Mr. Huse is a native of Indianapolis, a certified public accountant (inactive) and holds a Master’s of Business Administration, as well as a Bachelor’s of Business Administration degree from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University - Bloomington.


Mr. Huse resides in Zionsville, IN with his wife and two sons.



Mr. Huse is a Registered Representative of and Securities are offered through Kittle Capital Markets, LLC. Supervised by the Home Office, located at 310 East 96th Street, Suite 400, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240. Phone Number 317-846-3111. Member FINRA SIPC. Skellig Capital Advisors, LLC and Kittle Capital Markets, LLC are separate and unaffiliated entities.



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rwelch@skelligca.com
jhuse@skelligca.com





Securities and Investment Banking Services are offered through Kittle Capital Markets, LLC.

Supervised by the Home Office, located at 310 East 96th Street, Suite 400 Indianapolis, Indiana, 46240. Phone Number 317-846-3111.

Member FINRA, SIPC.

Please refer to BrokerCheck for more information about Kittle Capital Markets, LLC.

Skellig Capital Advisors and Kittle Capital Markets, LLC are separate and unaffiliated entities.