Robert E. Lloyd
Robert E. Lloyd
Chairman
The V Foundation
An extremely successful businessman and basketball player, Bob Lloyd has served as chairman of the board for The V Foundation since 1994.
He was named Sports Humanitarian of the Year in 2005 by the New Jersey Sports Writers Association, as well as being selected to the organization’s Hall of Fame.
Rutgers’ first basketball All-America honoree as a senior in 1967, Lloyd went on to play two seasons of professional basketball with the New York Nets before embarking on a business career. Bob and Jim Valvano were college roommates and teammates at Rutgers University.
Lloyd was the chairman and CEO of Mindscape, a developer and publisher of entertainment, educational and reference consumer software for personal computers, from 1990-95. He spent the following two years as the company’s non-executive chairman of the board.
Before taking over as chairman and CEO at Mindscape, Lloyd served as president and CEO of Data East, Inc., from 1982-90. He previously worked as senior vice president of sales and marketing at Curley-Bates, Inc., and as vice president of sales and manager of market planning and research for Spalding Sports Company. Lloyd began his business career as a district representative for General Electric.
During his All-America basketball career, Lloyd averaged 26.5 points per game, still a Rutgers record. He led the nation with a .921 free throw percentage in 1966-67, making 255 of 277 attempts. In 1987, Lloyd became the first Rutgers athlete to have his jersey retired.
