I cover travel, adventure sports, and various ways to drive fast. Areas of focus include cycling, skiing, high-performance automotive, and family adventures. My background ranges from being the editor of Bike Magazine to working with Julia Roberts and Willie Nelson on clean energy and founding a VC-backed software company.

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Shareability is the social content studio for brands that want to connect with consumers on an emotional level. The company's proprietary, end-to-end process includes research, strategy, creative, production, distribution, and measurement. The core product is “Hero Video” content distributed through a brand's own social channels that consistently drives social sharing and outperforms AdAge Viral Video benchmarks. The result is explosive brand growth in all its forms.

MomentFeed is the first digital marketing platform (SaaS) built for the mobile era. The company provides an integrated solution to manage Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter, and Yelp at the global, regional, and local level. The MomentFeed platform delivers on the unique promise of authentic marketing at scale. MomentFeed has the unique distinction of being a Facebook Marketing Partner (FMP), Instagram Business Partner, Google My Business API Partner, and Yelp Enterprise Partner. Clients include Starbucks, YUM Brands, AT&T, Coca-Cola, Avis/Budget, and 200+ other national brands. The company is backed by more than $25 million in VC funding.

Founded the company in my garage. Built the product, engineering, sales, marketing, and client services teams. Raised two rounds of VC-lead funding. Established vital partnerships with Facebook (PMD), Instagram, and Foursquare. Delivered the first "location-based marketing" platform and achieved product-market fit with clients including 7-Eleven, The Home Depot, JCPenney, and Texas Roadhouse.

MaxGladwell.com was a blog about the nexus of entrepreneurship and adventure sports, covering each topic independently as well as how they intersect. The primary publishing outlet was The Huffington Post. In 2009, Rob pioneered a new, distributed style of publishing, where an article is posted simultaneously across multiple blogs. His post on "10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media" was published simultaneously on more than 85 blogs including Mashable, TreeHugger, and The Huffington Post and occupied two spots among Twitter's trending topics.

Developed Zumbox positioning as the first paperless postal system and "paperless mail" as a new product and product category. Developed and lead the company's highly successful government (B2G) strategy. Launched Zumbox in in the Cities of San Francisco, Newark, New York, and Minneapolis with key support and participation from Mayors Newsom, Booker, Bloomberg, and Rybak respectively.

Composed original business & marketing plans. Served as key adviser to the CEO. Saw company through a reverse merger and initial public offering (IPO) on the OTCBB. Developed and marketed Willie Nelson's "BioWillie" biodiesel brand. Hired and managed PR/IR firms for corporate, brand, and crisis management. Served as corporate spokesperson. Lauched "clean school bus" cause marketing campaign. Recruited actress Julia Roberts to chair the company's advisory board and serve as spokesperson. Succeeded in raising the company's market cap by $200 million and earned a feature on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Producer and distributor of multi-media content in the adventure-travel, action-sports, celebrity lifestyle, and automotive categories. Webcasting production company.Aggregated and signed more than 200 independent content producers/ owners to revenue-sharing contracts for content syndication. Built a top-notch video production team.Produced live-via-satellite webcasting events for Yahoo! Broadcast.Wrote the definitive book on the history and people of snowboarding, "The Way of the Snowboarder", published by Harry Abrams Books (2005). Worked on assignment for leading national magazines: National Geographic Adventure, Men’s Journal, Outside, Men’s Fitness, Stuff, SKI, Complex, and others.

The preeminent magazine of mountain biking. Also served as Senior Editor of Powder Magazine (skiing).