Robert E Swanson

No verifiable public record connects a person named Robert E Swanson to the contact information in the stub. The email `[hidden]` and phone `214-760-7411` both belong to Congruent Investment Partners, LLC, a Dallas-based asset manager founded in 2009 and located at 3400 Carlisle Street, Suite 430, Dallas, TX 75204. Congruent's named principals are Travis Baldwin, CFA (Co-Founder & Principal; previously at Fortress Investment Group's special-situations hedge fund) and Preston Massey (Co-Founder & Principal), supported by Matthew Killebrew, CPA, CFA (CFO/CCO) and Bryan King (VP). The firm's team page lists no one named Swanson. Congruent makes debt and equity investments in strong lower-middle-market operating companies to fund growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations, and buyouts — a profile inconsistent with the stub's "angel / seed" classification.

The only prominent, well-documented individual named Robert E. Swanson is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Ridgewood Energy Corporation, which he started in 1982 to fund U.S. oil-and-gas exploration through private-equity funds (later focused on the deepwater Gulf of Mexico). He is also Chairman and CEO of Ridgewood Renewable Power and Chairman of Ridgewood Capital Management; earlier in his career he was a tax partner at the law firm Fulop & Hardee and an officer in the Trust and Investment Division of Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. He holds a JD from Fordham University Law School and a BA from Amherst College (Class of 1969), and is associated with the Ridgewood, NJ / New York area and Palm Beach, FL. However, this Robert E. Swanson operates in energy private equity — not Dallas angel/seed investing — and there is no evidence linking him to Congruent Investment Partners or to the contact data in this stub. He should not be assumed to be the subject of this record.

Because the identity cannot be resolved, no career narrative is asserted for "Robert E Swanson, angel investor." Doing so would require inventing facts, which this profile deliberately avoids.

• No verifiable angel/seed thesis exists for a "Robert E Swanson" matching this record. The stub's stated "Seed Round / Angel Investors" positioning is not supported by any source.
• The firm actually tied to the contact data — Congruent Investment Partners — describes its own strategy as investing in "strong operating companies in industries where we have significant experience" to support "growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations, buyouts and other significant capital transactions," typically via mezzanine debt and minority equity in lower-middle-market companies (i.e., mature, cash-flowing businesses, not startups).
• If the intent was to reach a seed-stage angel, this contact record is the wrong path: Congruent does not deploy angel checks.