# Robert Romanik Treasury investment-team peer at the Arkansas Office of the Treasurer of State. Email [email protected]. Documented Treasury investment-team peer of Steve Pulley and Damon Dortch across the Milligan, Lowery, Walther, and Thurston tenures, with Israel Bonds correspondence appearances 2020 through April 2025. The wiki cannot confirm Romanik's specific title from the documentary record; "Senior Investment Manager" is one documented framing per Brady's 8/11/2021 email to Berman ("our senior investment manager, Robert Romanik"). ## Documented Israel Bonds-related role Romanik's Israel Bonds documentary footprint is thin across Treasury R1, R2 Sub-batch 1, Sub-batch 2, and Sub-batch 3. He is routinely cc'd on Israel Bonds correspondence but does not appear as a substantive author or decision-maker in any documented thread. **The September 2021 Brady-led NYC trip to DCI headquarters.** Brady's 8/11/2021 12:23 PM email to Berman placed the Treasury delegation: "the Treasurer, myself, Grant and our senior investment manager, Robert Romanik, are headed to NYC the last week of September for our annual visit to investment firm brokerage houses." The trip ran September 26-30, 2021 (Berman's 8/13/2021 reply confirmed "Monday the 27th or Thursday the 30th" as available days for the DCI office visit, accounting for Jewish holidays Tuesday-Wednesday September 28-29). Brady's 10/4/2021 6:00 AM follow-up order email confirmed the in-person meeting occurred and produced the 10/15/2021 $10M Milligan-era purchase. Romanik's substantive contribution to the trip is not documented in the binder; his attendance establishes his Milligan-era investment-team membership. **The 5/12/2025 SBOF Federal Reserve presentation.** Sub-batch 1 documented Romanik presenting on Federal Reserve monetary policy and proposing the SBOF Target Rate of Book Return increase from 3.30%-3.40% to 3.35%-3.45% for FY2025 Q4. The motion passed unanimously. This is Romanik's only documented substantive board-presentation role. **Recipient of Damon Dortch's January 2022 portfolio-allocation drafts.** Dortch sent Romanik two consecutive portfolio-allocation tables on 1/13/2022 five minutes apart (3:29 PM "Proposed allocation"; 3:34 PM "Allocation with corporate credit"). Both tables list Israel Bonds as a portfolio category alongside Treasury Notes, Agency, MBS, Muni, Corporate Bonds, Liquidity, and Banks Reserve. Romanik's response to either email is not in the binder; the substantive disposition of the proposed allocation is not documented. The recipient role places Romanik as Dortch's documented portfolio-allocation review peer in January 2022. See [[damon-dortch]] for the substantive content. **The 4/16/2025 Pulley loop-in forward.** Pulley forwarded Berman's 12:06 PM rate-sheet email chain to Romanik 4/16/2025 2:54 PM with cover note: "Just to loop you in....I noticed that you weren't on the chain." The cover note indicates Romanik was inadvertently excluded from the 4/16/2025 Berman pitch but is normally included. **Routine cc on Israel Bonds correspondence 2020-2025.** Romanik appears as cc on the May 2020 Brady-Berman thread (Brady's 5/8/2020 12:27 PM order email cc'd Romanik), the January 2021 Brady-Berman thread (Brady's 1/21/2021 11:40 AM order email cc'd Romanik), the October 2021 Brady-Berman pre-NYC-trip thread, the 9/4/2024 Steven Kilgore Clearwater pricing thread, the 10/4/2024 Israel speaking-notes documentation thread, the April 17, 2023 Berman maturity follow-up that Gladden replied identifying Romanik as part of "the investment team for the Arkansas State Treasury: Rob Romanik, Steve Pulley, and Damon Dortch," and the 4/17/2025 Book Entry migration thread. ## The dissenting-memo question Romanik did not author any dissenting memo or procedural objection on Israel Bonds documented in the Treasury R2 production (Sub-batches 1, 2, and 3). Of the three scenarios held open at R1 on the seed-list "Pulley authored dissenting memo" claim, the scenario (b) — that the seed-list confused Pulley with Romanik or Dortch — resolves negatively for Romanik. Romanik's documented substantive contribution to the Israel Bonds documentary record is the September 2021 NYC-trip attendance, the 5/12/2025 SBOF Federal Reserve motion, the routine cc role on rate-sheet correspondence, and the recipient role on Dortch's 2022 portfolio-allocation drafts. None of these is procedurally objection-shaped. See [[steve-pulley]] for the resolved dissenting-memo question framing. ## Cross-references [[treasury-foia-r1-7-7-25]] [[treasury-foia-r2-9-23-25]] source pages [[steve-pulley]] [[damon-dortch]] [[celeste-gladden]] Treasury investment-team peers [[steven-kilgore]] Investment Accounting Director / Internal Audit who included Romanik on the 9/4/2024 Clearwater pricing thread [[eric-munson]] Chief Deputy Treasurer who addressed the 10/7/2024 Israel Bonds briefing request to "Rob & Steve" (Romanik and Pulley) [[jason-brady]] Milligan-era Chief Deputy Treasurer-Operations who placed Romanik on the September 2021 NYC trip delegation as "our senior investment manager" [[treasury-internal-credit-analysis]] [[independent-credit-analysis-gap]] concept pages