Robert Michael Lally is a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 linebacker

Linebacker

A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...

 who played in the National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 (NFL) and the World Football League

World Football League

The World Football League was a short-lived gridiron football league that played in 1974 and part of 1975. Although the league's proclaimed ambition was to bring American football onto a worldwide stage, the farthest the WFL reached was placing a team – the Hawaiians – in Honolulu, Hawaii. The...

 (WFL). Lally played collegiate ball

College football

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 for Cornell University

Cornell University

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 and served as team captain. He was a First Team Selection to the Silver Anniversary All-Ivy Football Team (1971), a Cornell Hall of Fame Inductee (1982) and was selected to the Cornell All-Time Football Team (1887–2003). At Cornell, Lally was also President of the Red Key Society and was a member of the Quill and Dagger

Quill and Dagger

Quill and Dagger is a senior honor society at Cornell University. It is often recognized as one of the most prominent collegiate societies of its type, along with Skull and Bones of Yale University...

 Society. He played for Bergen Catholic in Oradell, New Jersey where he was elected into the Hall of Fame (1991).

He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins

Miami Dolphins

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 in the 1974 NFL Draft

1974 NFL Draft

The 1974 National Football League Draft took place at the Americana Hotel in New York City on January 29–30, 1974. Each of the 26 NFL teams was granted 17 selections for a total of 442 picks....

 and the Memphis Southmen

Memphis Southmen

The Memphis Southmen were a franchise in the World Football League which operated in 1974 and 1975. They played their home games at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.-From North to South:...

 of the WFL. He signed with the Southmen where he was the '75 team captain and played MLB with teammates Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, Paul Warfield, Danny White and John Huarte for the two years the league existed (1974–1975). In 1976, Lally signed with the NFL's Green Bay Packers

Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...

. Lally played for the Packers for 1 season, in 1976. During his off seasons, he earned his master's degree in finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Business career

Asset Management

• AEGIS Insurance Chief Investment Officer ($2.8 billion). The weighted average excess return (vs. the asset class benchmarks) was 105bps with a corresponding Information Ratio of 1.45 (top decile)
• MetLife Portfolio Manager ($12 billion): Portfolios outperformed their benchmarks by more than 50bps
• Delaware Investments Chief Risk Officer ($75 billion)
• Delaware Investments: Vice President, Portfolio Manager

In addition to private equity, the above portfolios included public equity, fixed income, and real estate assets.

Financial Management

• AEGIS Insurance Treasurer
• AEGIS Insurance Trustee (Traditional DB, Cash Balance and DC Plans)
• Touche Ross National Manager of the Year

Business Development and Brand Management

• AFL-CIO Family of Funds: Led the effort to develop and launch these proprietary funds for the $400+ billion Taft-Hartley market
• Delaware Investments Brand Manager: Stable Value Product Line ($12 billion)
• MetLife Group Pensions Division Brand Manager: Asset/Liability Management Products

Education

• Cornell University, BA Economics
• Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S.I.M. in Finance
• The Wharton School; Advanced Asset/Liability Management Program
• Bergen Catholic High School (Oradell, NJ)