Professional:
Bob is the founder and Managing Director of Biomass Energy Holdings LLC (Wilson, Wyoming and Los Angeles, California). ). Biomass Energy Holdings LLC is an alternative energy company focused on the production of clean, green, renewable energy from wood waste. Bob is also a Managing Director of Terra Partners LLC (Wilson, Wyoming and Los Angeles, California). Terra Partners LLC is an owner, buyer and seller of net bond lease properties with credit tenants and other real estate investments, specializing in sale-leasbacks, like-kind exchanges and other tax-favored transactions.

From 1968 to 1995 Bob was an associate (1968 to 1974) and partner (1974 to 1995) in the Los Angeles law firm of Kindel & Anderson where he served as Managing Partner and Chair of the Tax Department.

Education:
Harvard University (B.A., 1964)
University of Cincinnati (J.D., 1967)
New York University (LL.M in Taxation, 1968)
Editor-in-Chief, Cincinnati Law Review (1966-1967)

Lecturer:
Annual Partnership Tax Institutes, National Institute of Tax Professionals (co-chair 1989-present)
University of Southern California Tax Institute, Law and Business and various other programs

Memberships:
The State Bar of California (1968-Present)
American Bar Association, Section of Taxation, Partnership Committee (1984-present)

Publications:
Whitmire, Planning Tax-Deferred Property Transactions (1992)
McKee, Nelson and Whitmire, Federal Taxation of Partnerships and Partners (4th ed. 2007)(2 volumes)
Whitmire, Nelson, McKee, Kuller, Hallmark and Garcia, Federal Taxation of Partnerships and Partners: Structuring and Drafting Agreements (3rd ed. 2003)
Articles in the NYU Institute on Federal Taxation, Tax Law Review, USC Tax Institute, Journal of Taxation