Bob Worsley

Background

About Bob Worsley

CEO of SkyMall since founding in 1989. Mr. Worsley seized the opportunity to synergistically bring together airlines, catalogers and airline passengers during their "downtime" to shop. SkyMall was the largest US in-flight catalog company. Over 70% of the business was web-based via In July 2001 SkyMall was sold to Rupert Murdocks’ NewsCorp group and Mr. Worsley agreed to transition SkyMall until November 2003. In Mr. Worsley was named Arizona's Retail Entrepreneur of the year. Prior to SkyMall, Mr. Worsley founded ExecuShare, Inc, and provided time-shared CFO's to smaller companies. From 1980 to 1985, Mr. Worsley was a CPA with Price Waterhouse and finished his time there as an Audit Manager. In 2002 Mr. Worsley pursued the acquisition, expansion and development of the New Mexico and Arizona Land Company's rural assets acres of fee land and acres of minerals). The company is successfully developing uranium, travertine, potash, salt, water, oil and gas, coal and land assets in Arizona and New Mexico. By 2005 Mr. Worsley had entered the renewable energy field by founding and building a 28 megawatt biomass plant motivated by the clean up of the giant 2002 Rodeo Chediski Fire. In 2010 Mr. Worsley and Hunt Oil of Dallas, Texas formed a new JV to pursue the potash found in mineral estate in Navajo and Apache County, Arizona. The JV will use the same land and mineral estate to pursue renewable energy, transmission, energy storage and CO2 sequestration. Mr. Worsley has served on the Board of Directors for the United Families International and served on the executive board of directors of the Institute for American Values in NYC with a similar vision. Bob served as AZ State Senator from Mesa's LD25 for 6 years. Bob and Christi Worsley have been married for 45 years with 6 children, 31 grandchildren and together enjoy their family’s Legacy Ranch in the tall pines of Northeastern Arizona. In 2020 Bob started his last big startup. ZenniHome. In Dec 2020, Arizona’s Department of Housing granted the company its license to be a Factory Built Building manufacturer. It manufactures 2 stackable models of homes that can be used as an ADU, stand alone home or multi family product that can stack up to 5 stories over podium. It will save 50% of scheduled time for building and 30% of costs compared to in situ building methods. Watch the crowdfunding at WeFunder.com/ZenniHome and the latest news at ZenniHome.com. Join the movement to shrink our footprint and live a zen-like life.