Bob Fry is a grandfather, writer, investment advisor, and Bible study teacher. He is also a Senior Gift Advisor Emeritus with the National Christian Foundation (NCF) of California. In that capacity, Bob also assists Berean Christian High School in Walnut Creek, California, with their Development Program.

For most of the last 30 years, Bob has been an institutional investment advisor with several companies including Merrill Lynch, where he served in both investment and management positions. He served as Merrill Lynch Trust Company’s Director of Investments. As a member of the Trust Company’s Board of Directors, he was Chairman of the Investment Committee that supervised $10 billion in trust assets. He also spent more than ten years in private practice as a business and securities law attorney.

Bob graduated from USC and earned his law degree from UCLA. Over the years, Bob has been a frequent speaker at national conferences for industry groups, such as the AICPA and the Investment Management Consultants Association, and for nonprofit organizations such as BoardSource, the Christian Leadership Alliance, and Focus on the Family. In 2015 he taught Bible studies for an OPEN Huddle in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

He is the author of Nonprofit Investment Policies: Practical Steps for Growing Charitable Funds (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998) and Who’s Minding the Money? (BoardSource, Washington DC, 2009).

Bob lives in Concord, California, with his wife, Susan, who is a retired Special Education teacher. They have three children: Jennifer, who is an attorney in Sacramento, California; Katie, who is a pediatrician at Stanford Children’s Hospital; and Jonathan, who is a petroleum geologist in Midland, Texas. The next generation is well on its way with Benjamin, Juliet, Sammy, Eddie, and Arthur, ages 11 to 3.

Finally, unlike many men in their 70s, Bob has largely given up golf in favor of full-court pick-up basketball, where his much younger fellow players sometimes observe, “He sure runs hard for an old guy!”