Prior to Topix, his tenure in the Silicon Valley included senior positions at eBay/Paypal, AOL Time-Warner, and Apple Computer. As the Director of Product Management for Topix, Blake oversees product strategy and implementation of all customer-facing features, including Topix's highly successful forums platform and recently launched news editing system. Prior to Topix, he led the program team responsible for PayPal's flagship SMB payments platform.
Blake grew up in Anchorage, AK, has lived in Seattle and Colorado, and before moving to the SF Bay area, lived in Kyoto Japan for 5 years. He now llives in Sunnyvale, CA with his family and enjoys talking about himself in the third-person whenever possible.