After serving with the U.S. Marines and completing a B. A. in Marketing from Southern Illinois University, Bob had a long and successful career in Sales, Marketing, and Distribution in the USA and Canada for multi-national corporations as well as several start-up companies.

Bob worked with industry leaders such as Procter and Gamble, Jackson Welding, and The Norton Company where he recruited and trained the sales forces, and was in charge of warehouse distribution in many sectors of industrial safety consumables (personal protective products, safety systems, etc.).

Bob has used his experience and his personal contacts to create a marketing consulting service for start-ups and mezzanine level growing companies. He worked, traveled, and studied on 5 continents and used his broad-spectrum business knowledge to build a unique network in many industrial sectors. Over the last decade his main area of focus has been in the introduction of emerging Green technologies.

He has been blessed to adopt 4 beautiful children who have now gifted him with 7 grandchildren. It is for these and all generations to come that has kept bob active building today for a better tomorrow. Bob’s hobbies include art, travel, hiking canoeing and writing a very diversified offering of poetry