Bob Higgins

Barge Design Solutions, an engineering and architecture firm, is collaborating with Vanderbilt University’s Future of Learning and Generative AI Initiative to educate executives on how to embrace and harness this groundbreaking technology in business leadership. Jules White To kick off the collaboration, Jules White, senior advisor to Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier… Read More

Bob Higgins, president and CEO of Barge Design Solutions, Inc., says the absence of a peer as an organization’s CEO is a void felt most often in tough decision-making and strategic planning. Bob Higgins “The development of LLMs is changing this dynamic. LLMs offer CEOs something unprecedented—a personal advisor and… Read More

Two business leaders and a retired Navy Vice Admiral will join the School of Engineering’s Academy of Distinguished Alumni, and two business professionals associated with the school have been named a Distinguished Friend of the school. They will be recognized in an induction ceremony at an April 20 Engineering Celebration… Read More

As a child, Bob Higgins, BE’97, says he constantly asked his father the question: Why? While an intern with Barge Design Solutions, Higgins thought about the possibility of one day leading the design firm and pondered: Why not? Today, he is the president and CEO of Barge going on 13 years. He… Read More

The CEO of Barge Design Solutions, who started at the company as a civil engineering student intern, is among Nashville Business Journal’s Most Admired CEOs for the third time. Bob Higgins Bob Higgins, BE’89, has led Barge as president and CEO since 2009. Barge is a certified Great Place to… Read More

Bob Higgins, president and CEO of Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon, Inc. Bob Higgins, president and CEO of Nashville-based architectural and engineering firm Barge, Waggoner, Sumner, and Cannon, Inc., has been appointed to the Vanderbilt University Engineering Alumni Council (EAC). Higgins will work on the EAC to… Read More