ROBERT GREENBERG

 

While I am the CEO of G&H International Services, Inc., I don’t see myself as the typical businessman. I have often described myself as an “accidental executive” since I never set out to be a business executive.

In fact, that is not the first description that would come to the mind of people who know me. Instead, they would probably say two things – both of which are accurate. First, I am a cause driven person. Second, once I adopt a cause, I do so with passion – that is, I dedicate all of my intellectual and emotional energy in service of that cause. They also know the two main causes I’ve been pursuing over the last decade and a half – serving the public safety community, and women’s and girls’ soccer. More recently I have thrown myself into investigating how social media tools (Web 2.0) can improve the formulation of policy and implementation of programs.

In 1998,  I co-founded G&H International Services, Inc. to focus on developing programs and projects to serve public safety. While the company has been increasingly successful from a business perspective, I see that as secondary to the pride I have in the work we are doing in over fifteen public safety related projects. 

In 2004, after five years coaching girls soccer and working as a volunteer supporting various national soccer organizations, I was one of the founding members of the Women’s Soccer Initiative, Inc. to re-launch a women’s professional soccer league. I am very proud to say that in December 2007, we announced the creation of Women’s Professional Soccer (www.womensprosoccer.org) which will begin play in Spring 2009.

At the core of all of this is the fact that I love to help people. Both helping to improve the communities in which they live, as well as helping them improve the quality of their own lives. Mentoring people is one of the great joys of my life, and it has also become a hallmark of how we treat the people in our company and the people we work with.

While I have spent the last decade or so focusing on these issues, needless to say I have plenty of other interests. I love music - particularly blues - and some aspects of professional sports (such as following the New York Yankees and Giants), and I am generally speaking a policy junkie. In the future, G&H intends to address some of those policy issues as part of our commitment to strengthen communities.

With all that said, I do have one overriding love – and that is my family. My wife Freyda – a retired software architect who now runs marathons and has become an Emergency Medical Technician; my daughter Sara, a freshman in college in California who loves soccer, cheerleading; and my dog Casey, a headstrong Shiba Inu. At the end of the day, they are my life.