Blake Stowell was the director of corporate communications for The SCO Group, and as such, played a significant role in the SCO-Linux controversies

SCO-Linux controversies

The SCO-Linux controversies are a series of legal and public disputes between the software company SCO Group and various Linux vendors and users. The SCO Group alleges that its license agreements with IBM means that source code that IBM wrote and donated to be incorporated into Linux was added in...

. He is currently PR Director for Omniture Inc.

Prior to SCO, Stowell had worked for WordPerfect

WordPerfect

WordPerfect is a word processing application, now owned by Corel.Bruce Bastian, a Brigham Young University graduate student, and BYU computer science professor Dr. Alan Ashton joined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Data General Corp. minicomputer system in 1979...

(1993 - 1995), Brodeur Worldwide (1996-1998), Novell (1998 - 2000), embedded Linux developer Lineo (2000 - 2001), and Microsoft (2001).

Blake grew up in Bellevue, Washington where he bred and raised racing pigeons for most of his childhood and early adolesence.