Robert Santmyer

Bob has more than 25 years of hands-on executive-level experience in delivering high-quality IT services and solutions to federal, state and local, and commercial customers. Bob’s experience includes growing revenue for both small and large businesses while leading efforts to deliver new technologies, such as one of the first-ever heterogeneous Enterprise Systems Management platforms; and developing new markets, such as establishing many of the nation’s initial Counter-terrorism Fusion Centers, integrating data and technology for holistic information sharing at regionally-based centers, following the attacks on 9/11.

Since 2011, Bob has led the growth of PenBay Technology Group (PenBay Tech Group), growing from $1M in annual revenue in 2011 to over $13M in annual revenue in 2019.

Bob is a VA-verified service-disabled US Air Force veteran. He is actively engaged in the veteran business owner’s community, regularly participating in events supporting the National Veterans Small Business Coalition (NVSBC). Bob is co-chair of the marketing committee for an industry group formed under NVSBC to promote the federal government’s use of the GSA VETS 2 GWAC contract, which will be place until 2028 and has a ceiling of $5B. In this capacity, Bob promotes all 70 companies, including PenBay Technology Group, to federal civilian agencies and the DoD.