Bob brings more than 15 years of experience in retail, integrated marketing, and marketing services as an operator and industry consultant to his position as ShopLocal's CMO.Before joining ShopLocal, Bob served as a Client Executive at Acxiom Corporation, where he specialized in Internet-related data products. Before that, he served as Vice President of Business Development at MarketOnDemand, where he focused on building partnerships with data providers and developing relationships with strategic partners. Bob also worked as a consumer products and retail industry consultant for A.T. Kearney, and as head of merchandising at a large specialty retailer of fitness equipment.Bob graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor's degree in economics and received his MBA from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.