Roberto Fisher is Vice President of Product and Operations for MySpace Music. Roberto is an Internet music and digital media veteran known for his deep expertise in and passion about the space. He has nearly two decades of product and management experience in Internet, media, and rights management products, services and technology. Roberto currently oversees product management, program management, design, and analytics for MySpace’s new joint venture with the music industry.
Prior to his current role at MySpace Music, Roberto was Sr. Director of Product for Yahoo! Music where he drove digital media and connected device strategies, managed key music and technology partnerships, and grew content catalogs and offerings. Roberto played a central role in the successful growth of Yahoo!’s music business from 2001 through to 2008. During that time, he played key roles in building up Yahoo! Music to be the Internet’s number one music destination, and to be the leading provider worldwide of Music Videos and Internet Radio. Prior to Yahoo!’s acquisition of LAUNCH Media in 2001, Roberto was VP of Product for the website and VP Technology and Operations.
Before he joined LAUNCH, Roberto worked on Internet, information, application and automation products and services for Citicorp, CB Richard Ellis and Oracle Corporation. Roberto held various product roles over the nearly 7 years he worked at Oracle in Global Operations, in Product and Product Line Division, and in the Applications Division. During his time at Oracle, Roberto led early efforts to apply database technologies to managing and retrieving rich media with associated metadata, to the use of relational databases for knowledge management, and to the delivery of content to various client types (PC, Internet, email, fax, and mobile). He was also a principal contributor to the launch of Oracle.com and oversaw the build out out some of the first Internet hosted and database driven B2B services.
Education: Roberto graduated with Honors from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Values, Technology, Science and Society.
