Rob Tullman

Rob is an infrastructure executive with 25 years of global experience in water, power, oil & gas, renewable energy, and telecom sectors.

From 2014 to 2019, Rob was President & CEO of USIC, the nation’s largest underground utility locating company with 9,000 field service employees. Under his leadership, USIC doubled in revenue and – through a dividend recap and subsequent sale – doubled the enterprise value of the company for shareholders while delivering safe, high quality services to customers across the U.S. Rob and his teams were directly responsible for rebuilding IT infrastructure with big-data tools and scalable dashboards; building industry leading field operations, training, and safety programs; and overhauling commercial operations. Over the course of six acquisitions, Rob grew and diversified USIC’s service offerings and geographic coverage.

Prior to USIC, Rob was President & CEO of Granite Services (now Field Core, a GE company), servicing heavy rotating equipment for the power generation and oil & gas sectors from 1997-2014. The business grew from a group of 50 field engineers to a global services organization with 9,000 employees who maintained 15% of the world’s electric-generating capacity. Work was performed at 2,000 jobsites in 90 countries on turbines, generators, compressors, and related systems in gas, fossil, nuclear, wind, LNG, and petrochemical applications.

Rob’s team grew the wind energy services business for GE to 900 engineers and technicians globally, in addition to commissioning over 2,000 turbines per year. In the oil & gas midstream, Rob’s team led record performances in plant turnarounds for ExxonMobil in Texas, Russia, Qatar (the largest LNG facility in the world), Fife Ethylene plant in Scotland, and Bonny Island LNG in Nigeria. Work in the nuclear sector included outage support for GE technology nuclear reactors in the U.S. and Romania as well as managing field operations that were ultimately impacted by the tsunami at Fukushima Nuclear station in Japan.

Prior to his GE affiliation, Rob formed his own company, Power & Water Consulting, to resolve the technical difficulties in the startup of the then largest (1000 MW) zero-discharge combined cycle power plant in the world being constructed by Fluor Daniel. After successful completion of the project, he joined forces with three colleagues to form Penpower, a power plant startup services company that was acquired by GE in 1997.

Rob’s experience in water & wastewater began at Nalco Chemical Company in 1988 where he was a top sales performer in specialty chemical sales and worked in potable water, wastewater, and industrial water treatment. He led the first large cogeneration project in the U.S. for Nalco and was the customer lead for industrial applications in corrosion prevention and cooling water efficiency for Dow Chemical.

Rob has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware and an MBA from Duke University. He is a member of U.S. Masters Swimming, an offshore sailor with 40,000 miles at sea, an occasional guest lecturer at the University of South Florida, and a member of the Tampa Bay Area Committees on Foreign Relations.