Craig Oda

Palo Alto, California

Partner

SVP Emerging Brands at LEWIS PR. I am a father with two young kids and an awesome wife. I usually spend my weekends with my kids at the beach in Santa Cruz or Pacifica. My son and I surf, fish for trout, and ride snowboards. I also work with a range of tech startups funded by the venture capital community. I have a blog http://socialmediasurfer.com I lived in Tokyo, Japan for eight years where I ran the first Internet Service Provider in Asia. I sold the company 1998 to PSINet in a cash deal that enabled me to buy a house in Silicon Valley. While in Tokyo, I developed a strong interest in collaborative work over the Internet and became heavily involved with the open source movem