Rob Bennett

Background

About Rob Bennett

Rob co-founded Municipal Software Corporation in 1982 and was initially responsible for all software development and technical services. He led the company through many different iterations, ultimately taking the company public at the beginning of 2002 as its President and CEO. He also led the development and launch of Municipal Software’s Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, Local Government Manager (LGM). This new service, based on salesforce.com, allows jurisdictions that cannot use traditional solutions for local government due to their cost or complexity to now use the types of solutions that typically only larger cities and counties are able to implement. Rob brings direct, first hand experience in the challenges and opportunities facing local government to Municipal Software. Prior to beginning the company, he spent five years working within a local government agency where he was responsible for overall design and development of regional computer applications and oversaw delivery of data processing services at all regional departments, including health, engineering, finance, planning, transit and administration. He is actively involved in his community advising a number of different companies on various strategic and tactical issues. In addition, Rob is the past chair of the Victoria Advanced Technology Council (VIATeC), is a former board member of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce (GVCC) and is a former provincial director on the board of the BC Cancer Foundation. He graduated from the University of Victoria with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and a minor in Geography in 1983. Specialties:* Building and maintaining relationships * Development of business models * Strategic Planning * Product Development * Project Management * Product Management * Sales * Pricing * Negotiation * Contracts * Systems Analysis * Internal Systems