About Us | Palatino Consulting

Palatino Consulting is named after the Colle Palatino (Palatine Hill) in Rome, not Hermann Zapf’s typeface (although we’re a fan of that, too.)

Rob Larsen

Palatino Consulting was founded by Rob Larsen in 2014.

Technology Executive with a Private Equity Focus

A proven financial technology executive and senior consultant with over 20 years of experience, specializing in driving innovation and building high-performance teams within the financial services sector.

My approach is built on a unique blend of strategic leadership and hands-on technical expertise, with a track record of modernizing core infrastructure and delivering complex software for firms including Advent International, Philips, Samsung and Eaton Vance.

My Commitment: To guide your firm through its most critical technology challenges—from cloud-native migration to AI integration—ensuring scalable, secure, and compliance-ready systems. I am a recognized technology author, active open-source contributor, and adept at scaling teams and processes in fast-paced environments.

Professional Highlights

Technology Architecture Leadership at a top-tier global Advent International, providing oversight for major initiatives including corporate rebranding, digital platform design, and infrastructure modernization.

Founding and scaling a global Front End Engineering Practice within Sapient Global Markets, consulting for major financial service and energy companies around the world.

Lead Architect for a suite of business-critical applications at Eaton Vance Management, implementing a shared Angular/TypeScript/Bootstrap framework for firm-wide consistency.

Principal Consultant for Palatino Consulting, delivering technical architecture for high-profile clients, including architecting a data management portal for an experimental medical device for Philips Healthcare.