Rob Whiteley is the co-founder of two important central Kentucky organizations:

►THE HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND which has awarded over 300 scholarships to children of full-time Thoroughbred horse farm workers in central Kentucky for education beyond high school.

►THE CONSIGNORS AND COMMERCIAL BREEDERS ASSOCIATION (CBA), a trade organization that provides a unified voice for breeders

and sales consignors while developing educational initiatives designed to create a fair and expanding auction market place for all who breed,

buy, or sell Thoroughbreds.

Rob is also on the Board of Directors of Fasig-Tipton Co. and Thoroughbred Charities of America.  He additionally served Fasig-Tipton Co.

as President of Fasig-Tipton Appraisal Services from 1983-1987.

Prior to entering the horse business on a full-time basis, Rob was a professor and Chairman of the Doctoral program in Counseling Psychology

at Rutgers University from 1968-1981.  His education includes a Bachelor's degree from Stanford (1965) in English and American Literature,

a Masters in Teaching degree from Harvard (1966) in English and American Literature, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1968) in Counseling Psychology.  During his tenure at Berkeley, Rob was National Defense Research Fellow, and also served as a visiting professor at that institution while on leave from Rutgers.