Before joining St. Bonaventure as vice president for Advancement in September 2015, Bob served as assistant dean for Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine and vice president for Advancement at Houghton College.
Prior to his work in higher education, he spent 17 years (1992-2009) working in various positions — legislative, communications, political and management — in Washington, D.C., for two congressmen from New York’s Southern Tier: the late Rep. Amo Houghton Jr. and Rep. John R. Kuhl Jr.
During his tenure on Capitol Hill, Bob shepherded several pieces of legislation from concept to public law, authored and managed numerous resolutions to passage through the House of Representatives and Senate, and was responsible for amending many pieces of legislation in various committees and on the House floor.
He traveled to more than 60 nations in various professional capacities, from organizing and leading Congressional Delegations to serving on United Nations-led Election Observation Missions in Africa and Central America.
As an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, Bob was deployed to Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan, as executive officer of the Regional Command North’s Multi-Fusion Cell, a diverse group of U.S. and international (NATO) intelligence professionals serving in the combat zone.
Prior to that, he served at the Pentagon in the office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J2), as an analyst on the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force. His most recent assignment was at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada as an intelligence trainer.
Bob received his bachelor’s degree in 1992 from Houghton College, and his master’s degree in 2004 from the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.
He and his family make their home in Ellicottville, N.Y.