Bob Cohen is Founder and President of Bob Cohen Strategies, LLC and has consulted domestic and foreign media, sports and entertainment businesses, research firms and packaged foods businesses. In 2014, Cohen and a group of local San Antonio investors launched, commZoom Communications, LLC, a San Antonio based startup broadband, cable TV and phone company serving 15 rural south Texas markets, where he also served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Marketing Officer. commZoom was acquired by Spectrum in March of 2022.
Bob is a shareholder and board member of Gow Media LLC, which owns and operates digital media outlets CultureMap, SportsMap, InnovationMap, EnergyCapital, SportsMap Radio Network, and ESPN 97.5FM and 92.5FM (Houston, TX).
Cohen is a media industry veteran with an extensive background and accomplishments in media, sports, and entertainment. Cohen spent 23 years with San Antonio based Clear Channel Communications (now iHeart Media) including nine years as CEO of the company’s International Radio division which operated 240 radio stations in eight different countries. Cohen spent 11 years as Vice President/Market Manager for Clear Channel’s seven radio stations in the company’s hometown of San Antonio, including the company’s flagship Newsradio 1200 WOAI, Ticket 760, Mix 96.1, Q 101.9, and country leader KJ-97.
Prior to returning to his hometown of San Antonio in 1986, Cohen spent the early portion of his career in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and Kansas City in professional and collegiate sports, broadcasting, and magazine publishing.
Cohen has been active in industry and community non-profit boards. He was Chairman of the 2006 Valero Alamo Bowl and has been a board member since 1995. He was also a long serving executive committee member and former Chairman of the Texas Association of Broadcasters, served on the national board of the College of Media and Communications at Texas Tech University, is a former executive committee member and current member of the board of directors of the Christus Children’s Hospital Foundation and former camp council board member of YMCA Camp Flaming Arrow in Hunt, Texas.
Cohen graduated with a BBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He and his wife Pam are native San Antonians and have three grown children Matt, Emily, and Benji.