R Blank has been an interactive designer, developer, author and teacher for over 12 years. He is currently CTO of Almer/Blank, an Adobe Alliance Partner based in Venice, California that specializes in video and application development for the Flash Platform, for Fortune 500 clients including E! Entertainment Television, Microsoft, Apple and IKEA. He holds four Adobe Flash certifications and was one of the first 50 certified Flash developers in the world.

Additionally, R founded and runs LA Flash, a community of over 1,500 industry professionals and home to three Adobe User Groups (AUGs) for Flash. R also teaches Flash on the engineering faculty at the University of Southern California.

Previously, R co-founded Wildform, where he co-created Flix, the first video encoder for Flash. R has an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from Columbia University.