Robert E. (Bob) Crow

Biography:

Bob is a public policy and technology industry leader, currently serving as an independent advisor and community volunteer. Bob’s career includes service in the private, NGO, and university sectors as an executive, consultant, and educator. He is a recognized strategist and builder of organizational capacity in settings where technology and public policy intersect.

Bob retired in 2018 from the University of Waterloo where he served as Managing Director & Executive in Residence at the Institute for Quantum Computing and Interim Vice President for University Relations. He is a former Vice President for Industry, Government and University Relations at Research In Motion / BlackBerry Limited, where he built and led RIM’s global programs in government and community relations, corporate responsibility, market intelligence and university research.

Prior to joining RIM in 2001, Bob was Vice President Policy at the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC). He also served, from 1975 – 1998, at Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) University as professor of planning and senior administrator in a wide variety of roles.

Bob holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cornell University and master’s degrees in planning and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Toronto, respectively. He also studied engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University at the advanced graduate level.