Bob Walsh challenges us to rethink the term “entrepreneur.” His passion for large- scale, community-based entrepreneurial projects and sweeping humanitarian ventures is driven by extreme generosity. Walsh engages in a multitude of fields ranging from inventing "March Madness" for college basketball and organizing the Goodwill Games between the US and then USSR to serving as Founding Chairman of OneWorldNow! - -a nonprofit program bringing education and travel to underserved children. Currently, he’s organizing One World 2011, an expanded and more ambitious version of the Goodwill Games, aimed at heightening citizen diplomacy with the Muslim World.
Walsh began his varied career as a radio and television producer in Boston and Los Angeles. He went to Seattle with Bill Russell in 1973 to help run the Seattle Supersonics NBA franchise, became a sports agent, and then evolved into a promoter, businessman, humanitarian, back-channel ambassador and citizen diplomat. He has traveled to three- dozen countries, coordinating events and forming nonprofits that have brought medical care, nutritional support, education and community investments worth nearly $1 billion to over seven million people. Tying together these sometimes seemingly disparate enterprises and achievements is a single thread: Bob finds it irresistible to help.
"Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. I am evidence that anybody can do anything."