WHO IS ROBIN

Seasoned Business & IT Professional

Robin Pettit, MBA is an experienced IT Business Consultant with fervor for helping small businesses and nonprofits realize their greatest potential. Robin has over 25 years of demonstrated success in corporate project management, IT product design, and system transformation.

Her corporate project experiences involve enhancing the trajectory of a product to gain additional revenue and target markets, improve existing systems for internal and external clients, and also streamline business processes in fortune 500 companies.

With a bachelor’s degree in psychology and business administration from Roosevelt University and an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School, Robin currently serves as a Strategic Business Analyst, Project Manager and Product Owner for Millennium Trust. She is also a licensed Real Estate, Health, and Coverage/Accidentals Agent for the State of Illinois.

Community Leader &

Change AGENT

In addition to her corporate and small business professional commitments, she is also dedicated to providing her community with innovative technology solutions.

Robin has since served on the Board of Directors as Vice President for Camp Butterfly, where she partnered with Northwestern University’s Kellogg’s School of Management to provide Camp Butterfly with a pro bono strategic marketing plan and IT Roadmap.

She’s served as past board president, secretary and past lead of special projects for the Community Justice for Youth Institute where again, partnering with Northwestern she secured a pro bono IT feasibility study for one of CJYI’s projects and collaborated with the Illinois Art and Design School to have its website developed.

Robin has additionally actively served on boards for the Renaissance Collaborative, the Black Data Processing Associates, and the Special Olympics and is currently President of Hadiya Pendleton Park in Bronzeville.

Nonprofit Founder & DIRECTOR

Her latest endeavor, Socks for Bunk “Comforting a Soldiers Walk”, was a personal one in honor of her dad, Robert “Bunk” S. Pettit Sr, a Purple Heart Korean War Veteran who passed away on Christmas day in 2015.

Robin founded Socks for Bunk is a 501 c 3 nonprofit organization to support veterans throughout the winter months by providing them with care packages including multiple packs of thick socks, toiletries, and other basic essentials. To date, Socks For Buck has donated (X number of socks or care packages) in the Chicagoland area.