Robert Curtis

Robert grew up on a small family farm in north central Minnesota amongst abundant lakes and forests. Connections to this early background continue to present day as this summer will mark 110 years of family ownership of the original home farm where he learned to drive a tractor and search out memorable fishing locales.

For more than two decades Robert was actively engaged in the aviation industry, predominantly with clients in the United States and Canada as well as from several additional countries. Throughout many of these years he worked for the finance arm of a major aircraft and helicopter manufacturing conglomerate in credit underwriting, finance sales, market development, asset recovery and re-marketing of turbine portfolio assets. Robert currently holds a commercial airman’s certificate with single engine, multi-engine, instrument, sea plane and Citation ratings; in addition to being a certified flight instructor and instrument instructor.

For the past seventeen years Robert and his wife Georgine have called eastern Idaho home. Robert has expressed that the years have flown by with the sense of barely scratching the surface of the treasures in this part of the country but that he and Georgine have found that highlights often include memories around the Henry’s Fork and Harriman State Park.

Over the past decade Robert has enjoyed a return to agriculture with most of these years as CFO of an Idaho based family farm annually conducting operations across 30,000 plus irrigated acres. Robert has noted that with this background, the importance and holistic value of our hydrological resources is ever on his mind and would seek to provide thoughtful perspective in service to the HFF Board and its worthy endeavors ahead.