The Partners
Two partners.
The continuity is the asset.
One in operating role since 1969. One since 2013.
Founder & Partner
Robert Warren
Robert Warren founded the firm in 1969 with $5,000 in savings and an office in the boiler room of his Manhattan apartment building. The firm was originally Warren Inc., a clearing-systems training business serving brokerage and bank back offices. By the late 1970s, Robert had narrowed the practice to executive search inside asset management. By the late 1980s the firm was working internationally, helping U.S. independents staff their first London and Tokyo offices. In the early 1990s the firm was renamed Warren International and began to work exclusively for asset managers.
In 1994 Robert structured the firm’s first liftout, moving an international equity team from a PNC-owned boutique to The Boston Company Asset Management. The transaction is generally credited as the deal that established the institutional liftout as a distinct category of asset-management transaction.
In the years that followed, Robert built and operated what became the leading practice in the field. Between 2001 and 2002, he was the intermediary on more than a third of the major U.S. liftouts publicly disclosed during the period. Institutional Investor profiled the practice in 2003 under the title “Heads Hunter,” a piece that referred to him as the liftout king of asset management.
Robert holds a BS in Finance from Long Island University (1967) and an MBA from Long Island University (1969). He spent his early career at Irving Trust, where he worked on the development of clearing systems and trust-bank technology. He grew up in the Inwood section of Manhattan and attended Stuyvesant High School.
Managing Partner
Daniel Enskat
Daniel Enskat is Managing Partner of Warren Enskat Group. He joined Robert Warren as co-founder of the current firm in 2013, bringing two decades of senior research, advisory, and editorial work in institutional asset management.
From 2000 to 2011, Daniel was Senior Managing Director and Head of Global Research and Consulting at Strategic Insight (Asset International), where he led a 45-person research team that built and operated the leading global asset-management cash-flow database, integrating data from S&P, Morningstar, and Lipper. He worked directly with more than 300 C-suite clients on product strategy, distribution, and competitive positioning, established the firm’s Asia presence, and led the acquisition and integration of its Australian business.
From 2011 to 2013, he served as Global Head of Asset Management for Institutional Investor (Euromoney Group), based in New York and Hong Kong, where he ran C-level institutes and executive roundtables for CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, and institutional investors across North America, Europe, and Asia.
In 2019 and 2020, Daniel was retained as Lead Strategic Advisor on an eighteen-month enterprise AI strategy engagement for a global asset manager with more than $500 billion in AUM. The engagement produced a 250-page board-level roadmap covering use-case prioritization, platform and vendor selection, model evaluation, governance, and organizational design. Research for the engagement spanned the leading AI laboratories and hyperscaler programs in the United States, Europe, and Australia. The work continues to inform the firm’s platform decisions, governance structure, and AI organizational design.
Daniel holds an MA in History, Political Science, and International Law from the University of Düsseldorf, with subsequent continuing study in Computer Science and AI at Stanford University. He began his career as a consultant and research analyst at the World Bank in Washington and Paris from 1999 to 2000. He is fluent in seven languages and has worked across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.