Robert Cantwell, Jr. Advisory Board

Blue Badges LLC, Vice President, Customer Care and Technology

Bob co-founded Blue Badges LLC in 2009. It is a management consulting group focused on project portfolio management, innovation management and project management utilizing Microsoft and its business partners' technologies.

Prior to Blue Badges, Bob was with Microsoft from 1995 to 2009 in a variety of business development and technical roles in the Malvern (Philadelphia) and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania offices.

Since 2003, Bob has been a Project Portfolio Management Specialist, focused on Product Sales Management for Microsoft’s PPM Suite. He has managed Six Sigma Program implementations, developed Best Practices for IT Governance and Manufacturing R&D, and also won the President’s Award for Sales Excellence in 2003.

From 2001 to 2003, Bob was Managing Consultant, Enterprise Services and Healthcare for Microsoft’s Malvern, PA office. Bob helped secure 14 Volume Licensing Agreements, initiated 43 new services relationships in small business market impacting over 125,000 desktops and more than 2,000 servers.

Prior to 2001, Bob was Technology Solutions Manager where he managed an early adopter program teams for Windows 2000 and managed the local launches of Office 2000, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000. Bob began his Microsoft career as a Senior Systems Engineer in Pittsburgh, PA.

Prior to Microsoft, Bob was Technical Services Manager/Project Manager at Corporate Software Integration Services in Woodbridge, NJ, and before that was a Network Sales Consultant at US TeleCenters in Boston, MA. Bob began his professional career at Ernst & Young, in Boston, MA.

Bob holds a B.A. in English from St. Lawrence University, and currently lives in West Chester, PA.