Bob Greenlee

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Bob Greenlee (born July 6, 1941, in Omaha, Nebraska) is the executive director of the Greenlee Family Foundation.[1]

Greenlee was educated at Iowa State University where he received his B.A. in 1963 and M.A. in 1968.[2] Decades later, in 1997, Iowa State initiated the Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communication in response to a large donation.[2]

After a career in advertising, Bob, with wife Diane, moved to Boulder, Colorado in 1975[3] and bought radio station KADE. In 1978, the Greenlees launched and developed the very successful KBCO,[4] an FM station programming adult album alternative (AAA) format, which they sold in 1988 for $27M[3] to Noble Broadcasting, now part of the iHeartRadio conglomerate. Greenlee also co-founded what would become CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries, of which he is still a board member.[2][5] He is president of Centennial Investment & Management Company, Inc., a Boulder-based venture capital and real estate firm.

Greenlee was the Republican mayor of Boulder from 1998 to 1999 and city council member from 1983-1999.[6] In 1998, he ran a narrowly unsuccessfully race as a moderate pro-choice Republican against Mark Udall in 1998 for Colorado's 2nd Congressional District.[7]

In late December 2016, Greenlee was seriously injured when he caused a highway accident in southern Colorado involving 5 vehicles. Another driver was killed and two other people were injured. Greenlee was driving the SUV at 89 MPH that apparently started the chain reaction.[8][9]

Greenlee and his wife, Diane, have two children.

  1. ^ Greenlee Family Foundation (2011). "Greenlee Family Foundation". Greenlee Family Foundation. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communication". Archived from the original on 2012-05-02.
  3. ^ a b Ufheil, Angela (2018-01-07). "Iowa State University donor Bob Greenlee likely to take plea deal in fatal Colorado car crash". Des Moines Register. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  4. ^ Greenlee, Bob (2012-11-21). "Greenlee: A Boulder loss". Boulder Daily Camera. Archived from the original on 2015-07-16. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  5. ^ "SEC FORM D". www.sec.gov.
  6. ^ "Boulder History Museum". Archived from the original on 2013-09-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ^ "Democrats hold on to Colorado's 2nd district - November 4, 1998". www.cnn.com. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  8. ^ "Woman killed, former Boulder mayor Bob Greenlee hurt in crash". www.denverpost.com.
  9. ^ "Children of Bob Greenlee express 'deepest sympathies' for woman killed in multi-car crash". www.dailycamera.com.