Pear Urushima
Marketing Guru, Apple
Pear Urushima is a marketing guru working for Apple, Inc. in California. She’s thrived in high-technology for more than 15 years, designing and implementing marketing programs for a diversity of F1000 companies. Currently, she specialises in marketing Apple’s mobile products for businesses. Examples of her work with featured Profile videos for Apple can be found on these web pages:www.apple.com/science/ and www.apple.com/iphone/business/profiles/ and www.apple.com/ipad/business/profiles/.
Pear has also inspired and headed up many live events for Apple including a series on the intersection of art and science called “Images of the Extraordinary” www.apple.com/science/prosessions/frankel/ and “Envisioning Global Change” www.apple.com/science/prosessions/globalchange/ which was presented at the Apple Store, Regent Street, London.
A native to Los Angeles, Pear loves the fine arts, photography, film, and video. Her creative passions include, playing taiko drums with San Jose Taiko (www.taiko.org) for whom she has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In 2007, she made her debut as a composer for San Jose Taiko, writing “The Sound of Ma”, a song about the virtual space in between the sound of drum beats and the connection between the body, space, and time.
In June 2009, Pear participated as a guest panelist and judge for Bains Numériques in Enghien-les-Bains, France. She is a member of the Art House Co-op.