Rob Henneke

Recognizing the power of information to intelligently manage retail business, Rob Henneke was an early adaptor of retail systems. He exemplifies RPE’s commitment to advanced technologies to help clients address their most pressing challenges in today’s evolving retail environment. RPE continually adds practices and solutions to optimize the retailer’s performance. Under Henneke’s leadership, RPE has grown to become a trailblazer in retail systems consulting, implementation, cloud hosting and data center services.

Henneke is a seasoned retail executive with more than 35 years of hands-on experience in operations, systems, sales and distribution. He began his retail career at Gold Medal Sports gaining the experience to rapidly move up the ranks holding corporate merchandising and management positions with Herman’s and JumboSports.

Throughout his retail career, he was instrumental in advising on potential technology investments to address company needs. He made a career move to consulting when he joined RPE in 2000 responsible for new business, marketing, customer relationship management and project management. In a continuously expanding role, he was promoted in 2010 to executive vice president and in 2019 as president and chief executive officer where he leads the highly-skilled consulting team working to build solutions for retailers across multiple channels to enhance the customer shopping experience, optimize sales, increase margin and manage inventory.