Rob Lord

Current

Founder/Board Member at Pioneers of the Inevitable (Songbird)
Board of Directors at Xtracycle
Board of Advisors at Ramped Media (ImThere.com)

Board of Advisors at Grockit.com

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Past

CEO/Founder at Popcast, Inc.
Director, Product Manager at Yahoo, Inc.
General Manager at AOL/Nullsoft, Inc.

product manager at n2k
CEO at IUMA
CEO/Founder at IUMA: Internet Underground Music Archive

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Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

Recommended

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Connections

487 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Rob Lord’s Summary

From IUMA to Pioneers of the Inevitable, my goal has been to refactor Internet digital media to promote choice and innovation.

Rob Lord’s Specialties:

Digital media desktop software and networks services, start-up development, board member

Rob Lord’s Experience

Founder/Board Member

Pioneers of the Inevitable (Songbird)

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

Developing Songbird http://songbirdnest.com/
Board of Directors

Xtracycle

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Board of Advisors

Ramped Media (ImThere.com)

(Internet industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Board of Advisors

Grockit.com

(Internet industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
CEO/Founder

Popcast, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

October 2004 — April 2006 (1 year 7 months)

Initial conception, team leadership and support.
Assets acquired by VideoEgg, Inc. in Spring 2006.
Director, Product Manager

Yahoo, Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

January 2004 — October 2004 (10 months)

Lead development of Yahoo! Music Engine (YME) with Ian Rogers, Matt New and team at the Y! Santa Monica office.
General Manager

AOL/Nullsoft, Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AOL; Internet industry)

May 1999 — June 2001 (2 years 2 months)

General manager of 10+ Nullsoftees developing Winamp, Winamp.com, SHOUTcast, SHOUTcast.com and a side project known as Gnutella.
product manager

n2k

(Internet industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )
CEO

IUMA

(Internet industry)

1993 — 1996 (3 years )
CEO/Founder

IUMA: Internet Underground Music Archive

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

March 1993 — May 1996 (3 years 3 months)

Rob Lord’s Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

BA , Computer and Information Science, Digital Signal Processing and Information Theory , 1999 — 2003

LoA in late senior year to pursue IUMA, Inc.

Activities and Societies:

Kresege College