Robert M. (Bob) Tufts 67-38 108th Street, Apartment A27 Forest Hills, New York, New York 11375
Bob Tufts is a former major league baseball player with a degree in economics from Princeton University, an MBA from Columbia University and over twenty years’ experience working on Wall Street, He is a visiting professor at Yeshiva University, has taught as an adjunct professor at New York University and Manhattanville College and has been a guest lecturer at numerous other colleges. A cancer survivor, he is a co-founder of My Life Is Worth It, a not for profit that advocates for patient and doctor access and choice in medical treatments and innovation.
EMPLOYMENT – EDUCATION
January 2011 - present YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, New York, N.Y. Sy Syms School of Business, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department Clinical Assistant Professor, Fall 2017 to present Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor, Fall 2016 to Spring 2017 Adjunct Professor, Spring 2011 to Spring 2016 Sports Marketing Management, Spring 2011 – present Principles of Strategy, Fall 2013 – present Business Strategy Capstone course, Spring 2014 - present Principles of Entrepreneurship, Fall 2014 – Fall 2016 Principles of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Spring 2016 – Spring 2017 New Business Venture Management, Spring 2013 Corporate Entrepreneurship (Executive MBA program), Spring 2013 Strategy Module, (Executive MBA program), Spring 2016 to present Lillian F. and William L. Silber “Professor of the Year, 2017-2018 school year
September 2011 – January 2016 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York N.Y. Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media, and Business Adjunct professor Business Development III – Fall 2011- Fall 2016 Academic Advisor, Advanced Research Seminars – Fall 2014 Faculty Advisor, NYU Athletes Dormitory – Fall 2014 – Spring 2015 UAW Local 7902 Joint Council Delegate, April 2014 - January 2016
January 2009 - May 2013 MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE, Purchase, N.Y. Graduate Program, Sport Business Management Managing Sports Business Strategically, Spring 2009 – Spring 2013
EMPLOYMENT – FINANCE
Advised European private clients regarding trades in American, Canadian and Mexican equity markets and futures and foreign exchange markets. Assumed increasingly responsible positions within these firms. Created, recommended and executed trading strategies for clients and coordinated presentations to current and prospective clients.
October 1999 - June 2007 JEFFERIES AND COMPANY, New York, N.Y. Vice President, International Equity Division
July 1997 - August 1998 UNIFIED HOLDINGS, INC., New York, N.Y. Vice President, Marketing and Development
June 1995 - July 1997 BEAR STEARNS AND COMPANY, New York, N.Y. Vice President, Institutional Futures
June 1992 - June 1995 CREDIT AGRICOLE, New York, N.Y. Vice President, Credit Agricole Futures, Inc.
July 1988 - June 1992 LEHMAN BROTHERS, New York, N.Y. Assistant Vice President, Institutional Futures
July 1986 - July 1988 THOMSON McKINNON, New York, N.Y. Associate, Futures Sales
EMPLOYMENT – SPORTS PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER
June 1983 - October 1983 CINCINNATI REDS ORGANIZATION
March 1982 - June 1983 KANSAS CITY ROYALS ORGANIZATION Played with Major League Team – 1982 and 1983
June 1977 to March 1982 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS ORGANIZATION Played with Major League Team – 1981
EMPLOYMENT (Off-Season) - SPORTS
1980/81 and 1981/82 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Charlottesville, VA. Assistant to Sports Information Director Assistant Coach, Virginia Varsity Baseball Program
1979 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, New Jersey Assistant Coach, Princeton Varsity Baseball (pre-season)
EDUCATION
September 1984 - May 1986 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, N. Y. M.B.A. – Finance – 1986 September 1973 - June 1977 PRINCETON UNIVERISTY, Princeton, New Jersey B.A. – Economics - 1977
GUEST LECTURER Author, advocate and panelist on sports economics, ethics and law- and on cancer care American Society of Clinical Oncology: Chicago, IL, June 2013, 2014 and 2015 American Society of Hematology: San Francisco, CA, December 2014 BIO: San Diego, CA, June 2014 and Philadelphia, PA , June 2015 BIO NJ Value Summit, Cranbury, N.J., 2016-2018 Closing the Gap Now: Minneapolis, MN, November 2014 and New York, NY, February 2015 Concordia College: Bronxville, NY. 2006 Dickinson College: Carlisle, PA , March 2009 Examiner.Com National MLB columnist, September 2010 to November 2011 Fordham University School of Business: New York, NY, 2001 to 2006 Huffington Post: Health Care columnist, May 2014 to present Isabella Freedman Center, Falls Village, CT: June 2012 and June 2013 Museum of Jewish Heritage: New York, NY, April 2014 National Baseball Hall of Fame: Cooperstown, NY, August 2004, May 2014 and 2015 Novartis Patient Advocacy, Short Hills, New Jersey, August 2018 Pat’s Myeloma Survival Group, Fernandina Beach, FL, keynote speaker, March 5, 2017 Princeton Class of 1977, Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, PA, October 1, 2016 Temple Emanu-El, February 2015 University of Virginia: Charlottesville, VA, fall semester, 1981 and 1982 Yeshiva University MTA , April 2015 and April 2018 Yogi Berra Museum and Education Center: April 2007 92nd Street Y: New York, NY, May 2013
BASEBALL CLINIC EXPERIENCE Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association – 2000 -2008, 2012 - 2014, 2016 - 2017 Israel Association of Baseball – Baptist Village, Kibbutz Gezer, Beit Shemesh - July 2006
BOARDS “My Life Is Worth It” - co-founder, May 2014 to present UAW Local 7902, Joint Council Delegate, April 2014 to January 2016 Maccabi USA/Sports For Israel – January 2007 to January 2014 Grover Cleveland Tenants Corporation – July 1994 - July 1998 Board Member. 1994 – 1998,, President, 1996 - 1998
MEMBERSHIPS Association of Professional Baseball Players of America Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association San Francisco Giants Alumni Association