Robert Jirovec

Robert J. Jirovec is the co-founder and president of CJK Securities, Inc., a licensed boutique investment bank he helped establish in the mid-2000s. According to FINRA's BrokerCheck record for the firm, he has directed the firm's management and policies as President, CFO, and Chief Compliance Officer since March 2004, holding an ownership stake in the "50% but less than 75%" range. The firm's broker-dealer registration ran from February 10, 2005 to February 16, 2016, and CJK Securities is no longer a FINRA-registered broker-dealer, which suggests the securities business has been wound down or restructured even though the cjksecurities.com email domain remains in use.

CJK Securities was described in public profiles as a licensed investment bank providing financial advisory and transaction services to middle-market companies — whether owned by a family, by several investors, or by a venture capital or private equity firm. Its stated service lines included advising on the purchase and sale of operating companies and business units, private placements of debt and equity, leveraged buyouts, the creation of ESOPs, and the structuring of financial transactions. The firm was headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Publicly available biographical detail on Jirovec himself is thin. Aggregator listings indicate he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Beyond his role at CJK Securities, no other verifiable current firm affiliations, board seats, or published writing were found.

Important accuracy note: The known stub data characterized Robert Jirovec as an "Angel Investor" writing "Seed Round" checks. That framing could not be verified against any public source. Every corroborated record describes him instead as a boutique investment banker / M&A advisor to middle-market companies. Founders should treat the angel/seed characterization with caution unless it is confirmed directly with him.

• No personal angel/seed investment thesis was found in any public source; the points below reflect CJK Securities' advisory mandate, which is what the record actually supports.
• Works with middle-market operating companies, not typically early-stage startups — clients are family-owned businesses, investor groups, or VC/PE-backed companies.
• Transaction types: M&A (buy-side and sell-side), private placements of debt and equity, leveraged buyouts, ESOP formation, and financial-transaction structuring.
• Positioned as a generalist advisor rather than a sector- or thesis-driven investor; no stated check size, sector thesis, or "what makes me say yes" statement is publicly documented.