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Mr. Blake brings to the SpaceDev Board years of top-level experience in rapid growth, high-tech media-related companies. Mr. Blake's strengths include media deal negotiation, corporate strategy, intellectual property rights, mergers and acquisitions and public company legal experience.
As the COO of the Starwave Corporation from 1993 until 1999, Mr. Blake managed business development, finance, legal and business affairs, and operations for the world's most successful collection of content sites on the Internet. He developed business strategies, financial models, and structured and negotiated venture agreements for Starwave's flagship site, ESPN Sportszone, at that time the highest traffic destination site on the Internet. He also developed and negotiated venture agreements with the NBA, NFL, Outside Magazine and NASCAR to create sites around these brands. Mr. Blake negotiated sale of controlling interest in Starwave Corporation to Disney/ABC.
Prior to Starwave, Mr. Blake worked at Corbis, where he led the acquisitions and licensing effort to fulfill Bill Gates' vision of creating the largest taxonomic database of digital images in the world. Mr. Blake acted as General Counsel to Aldus Corporation from 1989 to 1992, where he was responsible for all legal matters of the $125 million public corporation and its subsidiaries. Prior to that, Mr. Blake was an attorney at Shidler, McBroom, Gates and Lucas, during which time he was assigned for five years as onsite counsel to the Microsoft Corporation where he was primarily responsible for the domestic OEM/Product Support and Systems Software divisions, in addition to licensing, software acquisition and joint venture agreements for certain products. He frequently addressed issues relating to anti-trust, intellectual property, and international trade regulations law. | 