Robert A. Greninger, President Emeritus

PERSONAL BIO
Family/Career Highlights:
In 2015, I joined Dennis Gallagher, to help him realize his vision of creating a site to maintain and promote the rich western heritage of the Prescott area.  Subsequently, I served as Director, Vice President and President of the Board of Directors of the Prescott Western Heritage Foundation and was instrumental in the opening of the very popular Western Heritage Center in 2019.  

Previously, after more than 32 years as a pharmaceutical executive with Johnson & Johnson, I retired, starting my own management development company, Greninger and Associates, Inc.   In 2018, after the death of our last horse, my wife and I sold our horse ranch and moved to Prescott, nearer to the Foundation’s Western Heritage Center.   

I have served on a variety of Prescott community boards and continue to work with a number of national and international charities, most notably Sister Cities International, the three Prescott Sister City affiliations of Caborca (México), Suchitoto (El Salvador) and Zeitz (Germany) and, importantly, Heart to Heart International.  I have also served on the Boards of a number of local Arizona organizations.  I was a Director of Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc. Community Service Foundation.  I have also served as a task force member and advisor to nearly every Prescott mayor since 2000.  For two years, I served on the Board of Trustees of Arizona’s renowned Sharlot Hall Museum.  

I also served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Sister Cities International, Chaired the Latin America Task Force, was a member of the Governance, Finance and Membership Committees and chaired the Strategic Plan Evaluation Sub-committee.  

I was an advisor to the Diplomatic Corps of Arizona and a member of the Corps’ Scholarship Committee, which provides scholarship funds to graduating seniors selected from the University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University.  

Along with the active participation noted above, I am also a member of the Sharlot Hall Museum, the Phippen Museum of Western Art, the Museum of Indigenous People, Yavapai Big Brothers and Big Sisters and Prescott Frontier Days®, Inc.  

Most recently, primarily due to serious health issues, I stepped down as President of the Prescott Western Heritage Foundation.  I was honored to have been named President Emeritus by the Foundation’s Board of Directors, enabling me to maintain my commitment and involvement with the Foundation.    
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My wife, Diane, and I are blessed to have four children, nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.