2015 Alumni Medalist Robert L. Kahan ’69CC
Channel: Columbia Alumni
Date: 2015-10-13

Robert L. Kahan joined Montgomery Securities as a partner (1982) in San Francisco. He became Senior Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee with Montgomery Securities (1985-98) and in 1995 it was sold to Nationsbank. Previously he was with Goldman Sachs as vice president in New York (1973-1982). As a student, Bob was a sports and newscaster at WKCR, calling the exciting basketball games of the great 1968 and 1969 Columbia teams and reporting the historic events of the campus political disturbances of that same
era. Bob was one of the first donors to the new football stadium fund in 1985 and for his 20th Reunion he endowed a scholarship that supports a needy Columbia College athlete in his late father’s name, Theodore Kahan ’20CC. He co-chaired the special West Coast John Jay Awards Dinner held in San Francisco in 1997. He later endowed a chair in his father’s name in the Humanities Core, and also endowed the Bob Kahan Sports Studio at WKCR in Lerner Hall. With the advent of internet streaming, he remains a loyal listener and viewer of Columbia sporting events. He has been active in the Alumni Recruitment Committee, and as a mentor, hired four summer interns who went on to success at Bank of America Montgomery.