Bob Kaser

Vice President of Community Relations and Broadcasting

Biography:

Named the Griffins’ vice president of community relations and broadcasting in March 2007, Bob Kaser begins his 10th season as the team’s play-by-play voice and his third assisting with the oversight of the Griffins’ business operations. He supervises the team’s extensive community relations efforts and directs all major fundraising events for the Griffins Youth Foundation, of which he was named president in June 2006.

Each year from 2001-2004 and more recently in 2006, Griffins hockey on Newsradio WOOD 1300 was awarded a Broadcast Excellence Award from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. Kaser and color commentator Larry Figurski are also three-time winners (2002, 2005 and 2006) of Michigan AP’s award for Best Live Sports/Class II Radio.

Kaser serves as director for both the Griffins Youth Foundation Golf Classic and the Griffins Youth Hockey Camp, as well as co-chair for the Great Skate Winterfest, which he founded in 2002. He has also developed several of the team’s innovative community programs, including Growing with the Griffins and Charitable Goals. Under his leadership, the Griffins have raised more than $2.1 million for local charities over the last seven seasons, and the franchise won the AHL’s 2008-09 Western Conference award for community service.

In his free time, Kaser assists with several other worthy causes in West Michigan, serving as a board member for Southern Little League baseball and Cornerstone University's Champions of Character program, and a member of the Advancing Excellence committee for East Grand Rapids Schools.

A Kalamazoo native who grew up in Flint, Kaser has been involved in hockey since 1979, most notably spending 10 seasons (1990-2000) as director of communications and broadcasting for the IHL’s Kansas City Blades. He was twice awarded the Bob Chase Award as IHL Broadcaster of the Year (1993-94 and 1997-98), and his public relations staff earned recognition as the best in the Western Conference on four occasions (1994-95, 1995-96, 1997-98 and 1999-00).

Kaser lives in East Grand Rapids with his wife, Rosalie, and their two sons, Charlie and Sam.

E-mail: bkaser@griffinshockey.com

Phone: (616) 774-4585 ext. 3027