Dr. Robert W. "Bob" Touro DM

Part-time Faculty - Glenn R. Jones College of Business

Dr. Bob’s career spans more than 40 years of industry experience beginning in finance, accounting and credit management and for the past three+ decades, domestic and international sales and marketing management.

During the last 35 years, Dr. Bob developed business and marketing plans and managed programs on behalf of major corporations, entrepreneurial start-ups and medium sized concerns within the high tech disciplines of computer and communications software, services, e-Business, e-Learning and IT consulting.

Dr. Bob has created, developed and managed direct and in-direct sales channels, alternate distribution channels (VARs, VADs and ISOs), strategic alliances and partnering relationships, telemarketing and direct mail/database campaigns. His vertical industry experience includes high tech, banking and financial services, healthcare, discrete manufacturing, distribution and consumer retail.

Retired from corporate life as of December 2015, Dr. Bob’s last position was Vice President Marketing and Business Development for Jacksonville, Florida based Cybermax, Inc.(www.cybermaxinc.com). Cybermax is a web solutions company developing E-Business and E-Learning solutions for manufacturers, distributors, retailers, associations and others engaged in conducting business using the Internet (B2B/B2C – via Internet, Intranets and Extranets).

Dr. Bob has his MA.Ed in E-Education (Adult Learning and Distance Education) from the University of Phoenix and his BS/BA in accounting and management from Johnson & Wales University in addition to pursuing MBA coursework at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Bob completed his Doctor of Management degree with a concentration in Emerging Media (DM-EM) conferred by Colorado Technical University in March 2015. He resides with his wife and youngest son in Jacksonville, Florida, and has three older married siblings (another son and 2 daughters) with four grandchildren (two girls, two boys)!

Dr. Bob currently devotes the majority of his time to instructing online at several international universities, primarily in the college of business conducting courses in management, marketing, internet technologies and ethics primarily at the graduate degree level.

Trident Teaching Excellence Award

Dr. Touro was nominated by students in two different courses and two different sessions, and selected from among six faculty finalists for this award based on the strength of the students’ nominations in combination with evidence of his teaching effectiveness.

He received a perfect 100% average NPS score from the six students who submitted course evaluation surveys, as well as perfect 5.0 averages from those six students on both quality of instruction and faculty-student interaction – an extraordinary achievement.

Overall, 68 faculty were nominated by 88 students in the June, July, August, and/or Summer 2016 sessions.

“Dr. Bob was positive, helpful, knowledgeable, fair and prompt. Every assignment was graded quickly and with feedback that made me want to work harder on my papers and in the class.  I could not have asked for a more polite and respectful professor. He was personal when it came to giving feedback and I never felt like I was just another student but an actual person.  I would recommend him to anyone that wants to learn and have an enjoyable experience while doing so. Thank you so much for your professional guidance. Hopefully I will be so lucky to have you as a professor again in the near future.”  –  Stephen, ETH301, July 2016