Rob Kramer

Rob is the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Global Water Trust, a Los Angeles based non-profit dedicated to eradicating the #1 cause of disease and death in the world through the purification and delivery of clean water. Rob has spent the past 18 years as a successful entrepreneur, executive and strategist in the new media and technology industries. Most recently, Rob was President and CEO, and outgoing Chairman, of Uprizer, Inc., an Intel-funded high tech software company. Rob spent six years pioneering the interactive CD-ROM and computer animation industries as President of Moving Pixels where he co-created a proprietary 2D/3D computer animation technology featured at the prestigious Siggraph Conference. Prior to that, Rob was President and Executive Producer of Pagan Films, a music video and commercial production company. He has also served as a management consultant to Viacom, MTV and Universal and as Producer and fundraiser for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (the premiere jazz education institute in the world). For the past 13 years, Rob has been an avid yoga and meditation practitioner, and has taught yoga for the past five years.. He is a sponsored alumnus of the 2003 Aspen Institute Socrates Seminar on "Globalization." Rob holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Carnegie School of Journalism.