Early in his career, Bob worked in credit and finance for a large manufacturing company and became the only non-sales employee, in the company’s 52 year history, to be awarded the annual Anton Customer Service Leader Award. Bob is currently Manager of Client Financial Services for Robins Kaplan LLP, a large national law firm. He has worked in the credit and financial services profession for over 35 years. He has been a credit manager for the Valspar Corporation, Principal Resources and ITT Finance. In addition, Bob has done extensive consulting on Sarbanes Oxley, corporate governance and compliance issues for Grant Thornton LLP and 3M Corporation. Bob has served on advisory teams for large national legal industry vendors that specialize in the legal industry. He is also a member of the Silo Busters Innovation Team at Robins Kaplan.

Bob believes in giving back to those in his profession and spends time meeting with, and mentoring, displaced credit and finance executives. Bob has had numerous articles published in credit and finance publications. In 2016, he was asked to write an introduction which was published as the first chapter in a new book titled: The MentorShip. Bob has presented seven national webinars through the National Association of Credit Management (NACM) and has two more scheduled for 2017. Bob is also a musician who does volunteer work for charities and who also has presented an annual Holiday Concert in downtown Minneapolis for the past 8 years to benefit various non-profits. Besides speaking at area high schools on ethics and a number of colleges on the topic of human trafficking, Bob has combined his love of music with his business passion and has presented large-scale, mixed media presentations on finance and leadership for several national conferences. In 2016, Bob was a featured speaker at the Association of Legal Administrators Annual Conference in Los Angeles. He has just been asked to present at an upcoming regional ALA conference in 2017.

Bob is a recipient of the Forius/NACM Credit Executive of the Year Award and the Valspar “Presidents Forum Award.” Bob serves as an Area Director and board member for NACM’s Credit and Financial Developmental Division (CFDD) and is a past president of his local CFDD chapter. He is currently member of the NACM National Law Forum Credit Group and also served 9 years as a Director on his local NACM affiliate board.

In December of 2016, Bob presented at the Minneapolis/St Paul CFDD meeting on “Reimagining Your Department, Your Job and Your Career.” Since that time, Bob has been asked to make similar presentations on the subject to 3 upcoming conferences and has also presented a national NACM webinar on the topic in February of 2017. Bob is a life-long futurist/innovator whose favorite mantra on innovations is “Innovate or Evaporate!” Bob mixes real life stories with analytic data and best practices to make his fast-paced presentations exciting, beneficial and truly memorable.