I was lucky enough to get to see Bob on 7th January and we had a good couple of hours going over everything and nothing in a nice way, He made it very easy for me given it was a final farewell and I wasn't as reconciled to it as Bob obviously was. We chatted without any sense of remorse, just dipping into Bob's encyclopaedic memory of just about everyone and any event from the Chineham days at Motorola. Of course, he remembered the precise day we met in March 1991 when he came in for an interview. I'd like to say that's because I made an big impact on him, but in reality it was because the date was the day after Samantha was born. Whatever, Bob joined Motorola as the world's best pork chop salesman and left as a high performing sales director and a prime mover on our team in setting up retail channels for newly created mobile phones aimed at the consumer market. I agree with Gareth, Bob truly was one of the guys that was integral in getting mobile phones into retail here in the UK. we were change agents in every respect and Bob was in his element. Great memories, sadly left incomplete as I got moved into the European wing with the retail project not fully completed and Bob took his know-how to Orange to help to make it happen there.
We've kept in touch over the years and always sparked whenever we talked- the old chemistry was always there. Not least when I spotted Bob was having a lark out in Mongolia and he sent me the photo spoof with his sales team doing an hello magazine rip off. That's Bob for you. Will miss our chats and the chance to have him remind me just how fun and productive those days together were, making thing good things happen. A thoroughly decent human being to the very sad and far too early end. Thoughts to family at this difficult time, see you on Friday. RIP Bob
I was lucky enough to get to see Bob on 7th January and we had a good couple of hours going over everything and nothing in a nice way, He made it very easy for me given it was a final farewell and I wasn't as reconciled to it as Bob obviously was. We chatted without any sense of remorse, just dipping into Bob's encyclopaedic memory of just about everyone and any event from the Chineham days at Motorola. Of course, he remembered the precise day we met in March 1991 when he came in for an interview. I'd like to say that's because I made an big impact on him, but in reality it was because the date was the day after Samantha was born. Whatever, Bob joined Motorola as the world's best pork chop salesman and left as a high performing sales director and a prime mover on our team in setting up retail channels for newly created mobile phones aimed at the consumer market. I agree with Gareth, Bob truly was one of the guys that was integral in getting mobile phones into retail here in the UK. we were change agents in every respect and Bob was in his element. Great memories, sadly left incomplete as I got moved into the European wing with the retail project not fully completed and Bob took his know-how to Orange to help to make it happen there.
We've kept in touch over the years and always sparked whenever we talked- the old chemistry was always there. Not least when I spotted Bob was having a lark out in Mongolia and he sent me the photo spoof with his sales team doing an hello magazine rip off. That's Bob for you. Will miss our chats and the chance to have him remind me just how fun and productive those days together were, making thing good things happen. A thoroughly decent human being to the very sad and far too early end. Thoughts to family at this difficult time, see you on Friday. RIP Bob
