Board-elected (current term ends 2012)
Malawi ’64-’67

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Bob is former president of Graulich Associates, an alternative energy consulting firm. Throughout his career, he worked for various government institutions, including USAID, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Congress, and U.S. ACTION Agency.

He worked in the private sector as an executive for Oxford Energy Co. and CMS Energy Corporation. In 1989, he lead the teams that built the world’s largest scrap tire and rice hull-fueled power plants. In 1994, Bob was Marketing and Communication Director of Achievor Tire, and from 1995 to 2001, he was Vice President of Meridian, Inc., a scrap tire recycler in the northeast U.S.

He has worked actively in the Peace Corps community, most notably the Peace Corps Fund, RPCVs of Connecticut and South Florida, Friends of Malawi, Friends of Malaysia, and Big Apple Corps of New York. Bob served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi. He also served as Peace Corps Country Director for Malaysia ’75-’78.

Bob works on numerous charitable projects, including fundraising for the NPCA, Malawi Children’s Village, Give Children A Choice (Laos), and has led successful fundraising galas for the Peace Corps Fund and Connecticut Returned Peace Corps Volunteers.

Bob received a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and interrupted an MBA to serve in Congress as a Congressional Fellow, where he helped develop the nation’s first Urban National Park.