Bob Jennings

Bob Jennings

Executive Vice President
Gigabit Squared LLC

Bob Jennings is the Executive VP and co-founder of Gigabit Squared, LLC. He provides both experience and leadership that enables development funding for public entities, private sources as well as public-private partnership (P3) concerns enabling the creation and implementation of Open Source Digital Economic Development and Open Network strategies. Jennings is a frequent speaker and participant in forums on economic development, P3's and broadband as well as leadership and its functional impact.

In his career as an attorney (currently inactive), he has provided advice and counsel on public and public-private initiatives as well as economic development. Bob has worked on highly sophisticated debt financing and infrastructure transactions in both the U.S. and internationally. Jennings was the owner and founder of Captar Group, LLC, where he advised clients in new business opportunities to develop projects in alternative energy, green building programs as well as cutting edge building technologies (SaaS). Jennings has worked as the Senior Vice President of Scannell Properties, an international real estate developer as well as worked as an economic development consultant with KMK Consulting. He and spent over 14 years as a partner in the law firm of Peck, Shaffer & Williams a nationally recognized bond counsel firm founded in 1889. He served as Senior Vice President for Tamkin Development Corporation and its sister companies Tamkin Fiber and Public Facilities Investment Corporation working in real estate and technology P3's.

Jennings is active in the leadership of The National Council for Public-Private Partnerships (NCPPP) as the chair of its ICT institute, its President Elect and as a member of its international, energy and real estate Institutes. He is a member of the Southern Economic Development Council. Jennings has also served in the past as a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Governmental Leasing & Finance from 1991 to 1997. He has received a number of honors having been named in the past to Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who Among Young American Professionals and the International Biographical Centre's Men of Achievement.

He holds a bachelor's degree from Kenyon College and a juris doctor degree from The Capital University Law School both with honors.