Remembering the Dynamic Bob Tynes

This blog post honors the beloved memory of my dear friend Bob Tynes. Bob passed away on the past Thanksgiving Day in 2014. To truly know Bob was to experience the warmth, insight, support, and positive nature of his upbeat personality.  He was also a very giving person to both friends and important community affairs.

Bob T, as many affectionately called him, was a graduate of Stanford University’s MBA program, a project manager for top Fortune 50 companies, and a knowledgeable tech guru who gave his efforts tirelessly to help small businesses and nonprofit organizations.  He will be greatly missed by many of us.

I remember Bob was one of only two people who would come visit me in a gritty rooming house I had to live in for a while while recovering from cancer treatments.  He came there and we worked on business deals like it was a posh corporate office.

The last time I talked to Bob Tynes I needed his urgent help in a personal matter.  His last words to me were "I wouldn't do this for most people but for you I will." 

I hadn't seen Bob in almost a year largely because my daughter came to live with me and it was very demanding on my time to get her situated with a new school and living environment.

The next time I saw him he was hooked up to a respirator and couldn't talk to me because he had a tube in his mouth.

He had to communicate to me by writing to me on a pad.  Bob usually insisted on the fist pump but the last time I saw him in the ICU he gave me a nice tight hand clasp.

Remember to cherish and keep in touch with good friends.  Also men, especially Black men, make sure you get your regular prostate exams.  Life is just too short and we need positive people around as much as possible in these days and times.

Don't let life and social media alienate you for the most important people in your life.  Bob I will miss your brilliant insights, big picture marketing strategies, your diagrams breaking down complex business strategies, your social commitment, your bleaky humor, and most of all your eternal optimism.  You are gone but not forgotten.  RIP my friend.

We plan to do more formal memorial services for Bob Tynes in the future.  We'll keep his friends and family posted.

Here is a video Bob Tynes took and edited with David Steward, Chairman of Worldwide Technologies, the largest African American business in the country doing about 6 billion dollars in sales a year.

Bob is also talking to John Robinson, President and CEO, National Minority Business Council, Inc., in this video. Bob was very involved with this nonprofit organization and many others.

 

Bob was not only a brilliant tech guru and business mind he was also equally had a passion for the arts and was a talented digital artist.  Below is a video of Bob T took at one of his art exhibits in the Montclair Library of his digital art...