• Home
• About
  • Mission Statement
  • Annual Report
  • Board of Directors
  • Directions
  • Foundation
  • Contact Us
• Membership
• Events
• Media Room
• Committees
• Advertising & Sponsorships
• Advocacy
• Resource Center
• Career Center @NVTC

Board of Directors

Senior Advisory Board
Dr. Robert G. Templin, Jr.
President
Northern Virginia Community College

Bob Templin serves as the fourth president of Northern Virginia Community College, Virginia's largest institution of higher education and the nation's second largest community college. Located just outside of Washington, DC, NVCC enrolls more than 64,000 students annually at its five campuses. Templin came to NVCC from the Morino Institute where he served as a senior fellow since 1999 and helped in the development and launch of Venture Philanthropy Partners, a $35 million philanthropic fund targeting youth-serving organizations in low-income communities in the Washington metro area. Between 1994 and 1999, Templin served as the president of Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, a state-funded organization that enhances Virginia's economic competitiveness through technology-based economic development. During Templin's tenure, the Center was credited with helping to create or retain over 12,000 high-tech jobs, attract or create more than 225 technology-based companies, and increase company sales or new capital investment by more than $500 million. From 1986-1994 Templin served as president of Thomas Nelson Community in Hampton, Virginia.

Over the past 15 years, Dr. Templin's work in workforce training, education and economic development has been featured in such publications as Virginia Business magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today and Fortune magazine. He is the author of Virginia's comprehensive workforce development plan and was instrumental in the creation of the "Blueprint for Technology-Based Economic Growth in Virginia", a strategic plan that outlines the steps that Virginia should take to guide the state's emergence as a leading technology state. In 1997, Dr. Templin was selected by Virginia Business magazine as "Business Newsmaker of the Year" and he received Leadership in Technology Awards from the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the Greater Richmond Technology Council. In 1998, Digital South magazine named him one of the top 50 influential technology leaders in the South. The Virginia Technology Alliance, representing the state's eight regional technology councils, awarded Dr. Templin its first-ever Distinguished Leadership Award.