Bob is a career journalist who has been writing about petroleum products, oil, renewable fuels and energy for 26 years and joined OPIS in 2005. OPIS is the world’s most comprehensive source for petroleum and renewable fuels pricing and news information. At OPIS, Bob is in charge of the group’s ethanol and biodiesel news service and its many conferences and executive education courses. Prior to joining OPIS, Bob was Editorial Director for Hart Publications and served as a Managing Editor for U.S. Oil Week and C-Store Week, which were later purchased by OPIS. Bob graduated from Michigan State University in 1983 with a degree in English and lives in Northern Virginia with his wife Lisa.