Alex Blum

As CEO of KickApps, Alex Blum is responsible for the continued growth of one of the web’s most innovative social software companies. He leads a talented team of social media experts, software programmers, network technologists and marketing executives who all share the goal of providing web publishers and marketers the tools to easily enable their sites with User Generated Content, Social Networking, Premium Video, and Content Syndication capabilities. Before joining KickApps, Alex was President and COO of JumpTV, a leading Multi-Cultural Internet Protocol Television Network. Prior to JumpTV Alex spent eight years at AOL, most recently as the Vice President of Product Marketing for AOL’s Audience business where Alex and his team were responsible for re-launching the AOL Portal and delivering an entire suite of web-based applications including: AOL’s Video Player, Video Portal, Streaming Video advertising platform, AIM and AIM pages social networking service. Alex spent the first 10 years of his career in the computer software industry and was an integral part in building three successful technology start-ups. Alex holds an MBA from Albers School of Business at Seattle University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado. He currently resides in New York City, tweets about the evolution of social media at @alexjblum and blogs about similar subjects on the KickApps blog www.kickapps.com/blog/.