Amir Cohen is a product manager and strategist working in New York City. Amir is the founder and CEO of Green Blender. Previously, Amir worked at Open Air Publishing (acquired by Inkling Systems, Inc) as the VP of Product. Open Air Publishing creates digital-first interactive non-fiction books for the iPad and iPhone. At Open Air Publishing, Amir worked with a small team to ship award-winning titles, and helped to create and implement an efficient product development cycle for this new type of medium. He also built, maintained, and iterated through several web and mobile properties and internal production tools. Prior to working at Open Air Publishing, Amir worked at CollegeHumor Media (acquired by IAC) for 5 years. Beginning as a Front End Engineer, Amir quickly grew into a leadership role as VP, Product Development. Amir owned the product strategy and roadmap for several web and mobile properties (CollegeHumor, BustedTees, Dorkly, SportsPickle) which collectively reach over 15 million monthly unique visitors. He also managed the day-to-day operations and development cycle for the design and technology team of 12. Amir earned his B.S. in Cognitive Science, Human Computer Interaction at the University of California, San Diego, with a minor in Computing in the Arts.

Founder and CEO @ Green Blender is a smoothie delivery service. We send our members original smoothie recipes, and high quality, organic ingredients and superfoods to make smoothies at home. We believe that small, healthy changes can make a huge difference. We empower our members to do just that by making it dead simple to start their day with a healthy decision. From March 2014 to Present (1 year 8 months) Greater New York City AreaVice President, Product @ (Acquired in October, 2013 by Inkling Systems, Inc.) Led product roadmap, strategy and execution. Shipped 10 original interactive non-fiction books for the iPad and iPhone Appstore including: "Master Your DSLR Camera," garnered over 100k paid downloads, consistently featured in top 5 paid photography iPad apps. "Speakeasy Cocktails," featured by apple as one of the "Best iPads Apps of 2011" and in Crate & Barrel's in-store catalog. "Wine Simplified," awarded Digital Book World's Best Non-Fiction App of 2013. Built and managed marketing web properties, and internal web/production tools. http://betterbook.com From October 2011 to October 2013 (2 years 1 month) New York CityVice President, Product Development @ Owned product strategy for all CollegeHumor web and mobile properties reaching 15MM unique monthly users. Managed full product, design and technology team of 12. Maintained product cycle and roadmap, and advised executive team on product and technology decisions. From August 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 2 months) New York CityDirector, Front End Development @ Responsible for overseeing and executing all elements of front end development and design for CollegeHumor's web and mobile properties. Managed a team of 2 graphic designers and 2 front end developers to deploy new site features, internal tools, and client advertising campaigns. From April 2008 to August 2010 (2 years 5 months) New York CityFront End Engineer @ Developed front end for CollegeHumor's web properties with xhtml, css, js, and php. Contributed to information architecture and user experience design. From May 2006 to April 2008 (2 years) New York CityInformation Architect @ Prepared layout design, and defined user interaction for several top tier client website. Developed web properties with xhtml, css, php. From October 2005 to May 2006 (8 months)

BS, Cognitive Science - Human Computer Interaction @ University of California, San Diego From 2001 to 2004 Amir Cohen is skilled in: User Experience, Product Management, Product Development, Information Architecture, Web Design, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, Mobile Applications, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Design, User Interface Design, User Interaction, Start-ups, E-commerce, Digital Media, Web Analytics, Content Strategy, Online Marketing, Digital Marketing, Interaction Design, Mobile Devices, Strategy, Digital Strategy, User Experience Design, SEO