Executive Team

Eileen says this is the most fun company she’s ever run, which is saying a fair amount as she has lived and worked all over the world with Kodak and as VP at Wall Data before and after the IPO, CEO of Personify (behavioral segmentation and analytics) and Verb (context search), outside Board Director at Qbiquity and Popular Demand, and even a stint at a boutique investment bank.

Eileen never stopped photographing since her days studying photography, and that’s how Blurb got started. She wanted to create a beautifully designed and produced

After business school, law school, and building other people’s businesses at Boston Consulting Group, Pete built his own adventure travel company. He co-founded AdventureSeek and sold it to Unexplored, then played a key SVP role at Lonely Planet before taking off for a whole new adventure: Blurb.

Intrepid as ever, Pete is responsible for Blurb’s growth in leaps and bounds and

He’s done enterprise software (VP Product Development, Unicru), he’s done Web content (CTO, adam.com), he’s done community and search (CIO, Guru), and he’s done graphics (Software Engineer, Intergraph). But what Greg likes the most about Blurb is that he gets to put it all together with a customer-facing application and the short delivery cycles of the Web world.

World traveler. Brand builder. Robin’s both. She even found a job that combined the two when she was in charge of Global Marketing for Lonely Planet, the largest independent travel publisher. That’s where she developed successful strategic partnerships of global proportions. She’s been to five out of seven continents, has an MBA from The Wharton School, and she’s led marketing efforts at ClickAction, Nestle, and Clorox.

Bruce has been in the business of making other people’s stuff look good for over 30 years now. Just ask Apple, HP, Wal-Mart, Costco, Getty Images, Corbis Corporation, and Columbia Records – he’s helped them all. From his early days running a high-end professional color lab to managing Corbis’ vast worldwide scanning operations, Bruce knows print ... and Bruce knows color ... and Bruce knows quality. And as a former portrait, wedding, and commercial photographer, he also knows photography.

Chad was the face behind many an interface during his days at Method, putting his “useful, usable, and desirable” motto to work for splashy brands like Gucci, Macromedia, Reuters, HP, Samsung, and Palm. His concoction of tech savvy and people skills landed him a master’s degree in Human-Centered Design and a gig at SmartDesign, giving consumer products a friendly interface – until Blurb enticed him into the world of books and the Web of authors.

He’s going the distance. This could apply to Brent’s Track and Field days at the University of Kansas. That’s where he earned a BGS, MSE, and was a Ph.D. candidate in Instructional Design. It could also apply to his professional accomplishments. He turned his love of sports into a career managing product development and content syndication for Sport*s*vision. Then he took on roles in both marketing and product management for a little company called CNET. You might have heard of it. (About 148 million people check it out every month.) That’s where Brent really started to work his magic and we took notice. Blurb hired Brent to head up product management and relaunch our Web site.

Bryan has always made things. From the making of art (he received his degree in sculpture) and the fabrication of stage sets (including PeeWee’s Playhouse) to the design of modern furniture and the design and authorship of numerous books (such as Prefab, Cheap Hotels, and the bestselling ode to the silver bullet, Airstream: The History of the Land Yacht), Bryan has continuously sought out new mediums with which to hone his craft. Prior to joining Blurb, Bryan shifted his attention from the printed page to the world of software at Apple Computer, where he worked with both the Aperture and iWorks