Robert Shaye opened his first IRA at age 15 and has been fascinated by personal finance ever since. He attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and served 10 years on active duty, including two tours at sea conducting search and rescue missions in the North Atlantic and counter-narcotics missions in the Caribbean Sea. He is now a USCG Reservist in Seattle and sails on board the Barque EAGLE, “America’s Tall Ship,” during the summer training season. While at sea he teaches cadets and crewmembers about navigation as well as personal financial management. After leaving active duty in 2015, Robert was an early employee at FutureAdvisor, a digital investment advisor, which was later acquired by BlackRock. He worked for BlackRock for three years before leaving to start his own investment education company called Fireside Finances, LLC. Robert holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and is also a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certificant.