Bob Murphy, Executive Director, Program Operations, Department of Commerce

Robert E. "Bob" Murphy has been the director of business development for the Indiana Dept. of Commerce and was recently appointed deputy executive director -program operations for the Dept. of Commerce by Lt. Governor Joe Kernan. Mr. Murphy is a business executive with extensive private industry experience in management and sales.

He has been with the Indiana Dept. of Commerce since 1998. For a period of about ten years prior to that he held executive positions at Anchor Glass Container Corp., where he managed national and international sales and sales support efforts. Prior to his service at Anchor Glass, he served as vice president of sales for Diamond-Bathurst, also a glass container manufacturer, in Indianapolis and then as Diamond-Bathurst's vice president and general sales manager at the company's corporate offices in Pennsylvania.

He is a 1960 graduate of Boston College and served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps for eight years.