Bob Coontz joined the California Charter Schools Association in March 2004 as Chief Financial Officer. As a member of CCSA's Executive Team, he leads the Finance and Operations Teams responsible for treasury, budgeting, audit, accounting activities, membership and operational technology. He also serves as Chairman of the Association's insurance subsidiary School Risk Management, LLC and as Administrator of the Association's Insurance Joint Powers Authority.

From March 2000 to August 2004, he held the position of Chief Financial and Development Officer for Different Ways of Knowing, a comprehensive school reform program supported and endorsed by New American Schools, Public Education Network, and National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform.

From May 1994 to March 2000, he held the position of Chief Financial and Development Officer for Los Angeles Educational Partnership and Urban Learning Centers, one of the first comprehensive school reform programs supported and endorsed by New American Schools. With philanthropic support from Rockefeller Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Pew Charitable Trusts, and the US department of Education, Los Angeles Educational Partnership was founded in 1984 as an early leader in a nationwide movement to transform public education.

Prior to this, he worked for three years as a member of the executive team responsible for the establishment and opening of the Autry National Center, and for 13 years he worked for the Walt Disney Company as Financial Analyst and Director of Corporate Marketing in Tokyo and at Disney Headquarters in Burbank, California.

He served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau, City of Burbank Cultural Affairs Commission, Performing Arts Grants Committee, and Chairman of the Burbank Art in Public Places Commission. He is a member of the President's Medallion Society at St. Michael's College, and a founding contributor to the Bogen Family Transitional Housing project at St. Anne's, a Los Angeles social services agency serving at-risk, pregnant and/or parenting young women and their children.

He earned an MBA from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. Bob and his wife Yvette Chong live in Burbank with their daughter Kylie.