A little about me….

I work for Edelman Digital. I am an Senior Vice President of Social Business Planning.  Basically, I help clients transform their organizations to be more open, collaborative and socially proficient; with the end result of creating shared value with employees, partners and customers.

Sounds complicated, I know. But read a few posts on my blog and it will start to come together. If it’s still confusing, send me an email.

Over the last decade and prior to Edelman,  I worked for some pretty big companies like Hewlett Packard, Yahoo for a second and most recently Intel. Very early on in my career, my role was very focused on search and direct marketing. I then saw the light and haven’t turned back since.

Life is crazy but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I have been (and still)  involved in a lot of different projects .. here is the short list:

• I was a business advisor for the amazingly awesome, now publicly traded company IZEA. I still have equity in the company and the CEO, Ted Murphy is a personal friend that I hold in very high regard
• I was an original member of the Social Media Club’s Board of Directors
• I was an angel investor in OneForty which was recently acquired by Hubspot
• I have published articles in Mashable, AdWeek, InformationWeek, PRNewsWeek, MarketingProfs, Social Fresh to name a few
• I am an adjunct professor at San Jose State University teaching students about social business. Yes, PR and business students are learning social business. They are certainly going to need it since business is changing so rapidly
• I founded Silicon Valley Tweetup and we have raised close to $15K to various non-profit organizations
• I wrote the first book on social business. It could have been better but I was in a rush
• I am on the board of advisors for Vintank; which is led by someone else I hold in very high regard, Paul Mabray
• I am on the Advisory Board of Lonesome George & Co.
• I am frequent speaker at industry conferences like BlogWorld, MarketingProfs Digital Mixer & SocialTech, Crush IQ, SXSW
• I started Social Business News – a multi authored blog from industry professionals with roots from Deloitte, Edelman, Dachis Group as well as several authors who work for agencies, other consultancies and large brands
• I am and always will be a US Marine. I love this country and always will despite its flaws

Personally, I grew up hip hop. Still love hip hop. Drake, Kanye, JayZ, Ice Cube, NWA, Ghetto Boys, MC Lyte, and EPMD pretty much occupy my Spotify playlists. I also live and breathe 90s R&B.

I am a Lakers fan and will argue for days (and win) that Magic Johnson is the greatest NBA player to have ever played the game of professional basketball. Period.

I am 49ers fan and probably don’t have to argue that Jerry Rice is by far the greatest NFL receiver of all time history.

I am married and have the two best little girls in the world that I love more than life itself. Nothing else matters.