I’m a start-up executive with over 14 years experience creating innovative products and marketing programs for ecommerce, advertising and digital media solutions. I’ve been spending a lot of time with social media (twitter, facebook, others) observing its impact on traditional media, advertising, branding and overall social influence. Maybe I have a defect or something but I find discussing media and advertising trends interesting

I’m currently the VP of Marketing for GameStreamer, a very interesting startup that will change the game (pun intended for the digital distribution of video games. We are in the last push to launch the product but have been incrementally releasing some of the capabilities over the last couple of months. GameStreamer is the next generation digital distribution for games and will make a very big impact. Previously I was the VP of Products at Retrevo, “the ultimate electronics marketplace” bringing innovative products to market such as real-time product reviews, recommendation engine, real-time catalogs as well as driving the social media products and communications strategy. Prior to Retrevo I was the Sr. Director of Product Management and Marketing for Trymedia, which is now part of RealNetworks. Trymedia operated a digital distribution system for games publishers and portals with white label and custom private label games stores for Yahoo, AOL, BigFish Games, GameStop, and more that 500 distribution partners. You can find more about my experience on my LinkedIn profile here http://www.linkedin.com/in/robblewis

I use this blog, robblewis.com as my personal canvass where I post random thoughts and observations on, well, just about anything that catches my attention. My activity on this blog ebs and flows with my mood and time so there are some gaps, sorry.

You can also follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/robblewis

A Bit About My Personal Side

Mothers Day in Carmel, 2009

Activities: Family, Work, Bike Rides, Golf, Video Games

Interests: Internet Technologies, CE Gadgets, Video Games, Interactive Advertising / Social Advertising, Baseball, Hockey, Football, Golf

Stefani with dad - 2008

Favorite Music: Depends on my mood. Mostly metal (and NO, not those 80’s hair bands type of flashy metal – real metal like Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Judas Priest and of course Metallica), hard rock and alternative but I also love trance and technno. Past interests from my youth (still enjoy but not actively listening): Punk Rock (Black Flagg, Dead Kennedys, etc), Reggae, Jazz (grover Wash..), and of course when I need to just mellow, classical Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bach.

TV Shows I like to watch: Family Guy, South Park, Daily Show, Colbert Report – (lots of comedy central stuff); How it’s made, History channel, Scyfy Channel, The Universe, Deconstruction, Myth Busters, Charlie Rose

Movies I can watch over and over: Usual Suspects, Spy Game, Matrix (orig), Dazed and Confused; Old time favs – Blazing Saddles and of course all the Star Wars series.

From the cool lexus dugout seats behind home plate.

Here’s some pics my girls made for Liz as a birthday gift. They are growing up. Liz and I are very fortunate to have such beautiful children. Check em out-