Robert Fuehr

Robert (Bob) Fuehr is a former telecommunications executive with 30 years of Fortune 100 management experience and a candidate for Utah's 2nd District Congressional seat in 2012.
Education
Bob earned a National Merit Scholarship to go to Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio where he graduated as an electrical engineer. He was then named the Humphrey Fellow at Harvard where he attended the Harvard Business School and earned an MBA.
Career
Bob started work at 17 for Ohio Bell Telephone Company while he was still in high school earning $70 a week as an installer/repairman and stayed with the telephone company for thirty years eventually becoming the US WEST Vice President for Utah in 1990 and retiring in 2000 as Group Vice President and Corporate Officer for MediaOne Cable. After retirement, he was the Chief Operating Officer at a small Internet start-up in West Valley before being asked by Governor Mike Leavitt to run the Utah Division of Business and Economic Development during the Olympics.

Bob served for ten years on the Zions First National Bank Board of Directors and 15 years on the Southern Utah University Board of Fellows, seven years as Chairman. He was also a member of the Salt Lake United Way Board of Directors and Chairman of the 1993 Salt Lake City United Way Campaign. Bob also served on the Pioneer Memorial Theatre Board of Directors, the YWCA Board, the Utah Symphony Board of Directors and was chairman of the Utah Technology Initiative putting computers into public schools and training teachers how to use them in their classrooms. Bob was also a visiting professor of Economics at Gakushuin University in Tokyo, Japan in 2007-2008.

Bob has been married to Jeanne Marie for 39 years. They have no children.

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