Google Ventures — Team Directory

Investing Team

Managing Partner

Bill is the managing partner of Google Ventures, where he and his team are seeking out new technologies, ...

Partner, Chief of Staff

Andy brings over a decade of startup experience to his role, most recently serving as chief technology ...

Anish is a partner on the investing team at Google Ventures. His background is in building and managing web ...

Anthony Philippakis

Venture Partner

Anthony Philippakis is a physician, geneticist and mathematician.Anthony is a fellow in cardiology at Brigham ...

Blake began doing biomedical research as a high school student at Stanford in 2002, and has worked in seven ...

Sourcing Partner

Chris is a sourcing partner with Google Ventures. Prior to joining Google Ventures, he ran business ...

General Partner

David’s Google career began more than 10 years ago, as director of Global Communications and Public Affairs. ...

General Partner

Joe has been with Google Ventures since 2009.Prior to Google Ventures, Joe was a two-time entrepreneur. In ...

General Partner

Karim brings over a decade of operational, entrepreneurial and investment experience to his role. He ...

General Partner

Kevin Rose is a general partner at Google Ventures, where he primarily focuses on early-stage and seed ...

Krishna Yeshwant

General Partner

Dr. Krishna Yeshwant is a physician, programmer, and entrepreneur who has been working with Google Ventures ...

Research Partner

Lindsay is a research partner with Google Ventures and joined the team after working on Google’s display ads ...

Research and Operations Partner

Luis is a member of the investment team at Google Ventures. In his current role, Luis has worked with ...

General Partner

MG Siegler is a general partner at Google Ventures, where he primarily focuses on seed and early-stage ...

General Partner

Rich is based in Cambridge, MA. He has over 25 years of experience growing businesses with innovative ...

Venture Partner

Scott Davis holds degrees in physics, mechanical and biomedical engineering, and brings broad technical ...

General Partner

Wesley Chan is a fun-loving entrepreneur and joined the Google Ventures team in 2009. Wesley is based out of ...

Hands-on Teams

Engineering Partner

Adam specializes in the effective application of data and analysis to improve products and transform large ...

Recruiting Partner

Brad Strader joined Google Ventures in 2011 as a recruiting partner, and helps our portfolio companies find ...

Braden is passionate about creating great user experiences on the Web. He’s equal parts interaction designer, ...

Head of Recruiting

Carrie joined Google Ventures in 2012, after more than 10 years at Google's Partnerships and Global People ...

Choongsoon is a statistician at Google Ventures. Previously he worked on the quantitative marketing team at ...

Communications Partner

Cyndi works with the Google Ventures team and portfolio companies on communications strategies. Prior to ...

Daniel is a design partner at Google Ventures. He is best known for his work with web groundbreakers like ...

Erik Nordlander

Engineering Partner

Erik joined the Google Ventures team in 2010 as an engineering partner. He is based out of New York City. ...

Graham is a filmmaker at Google Ventures. He focuses on producing video content, including Kevin Rose’s ...

General Partner

Graham Spencer is an engineering director at Google and a member of the Google Ventures team.Graham was one ...

Jake is a designer and product development expert. Before Google Ventures, Jake was Google’s design strategy ...

Communications Partner

Jodi leads communications for the Google Ventures team and advises portfolio companies on their public ...

John is a design partner at Google Ventures, where he helps startups succeed by focusing on user experience. ...

Engineering Partner

Jon is an engineering partner at Google Ventures. Prior to joining Ventures, he worked on the Google Chrome ...

Partner, Startup Lab

Ken is a partner at Google Ventures where he helps lead Startup Lab. Prior to joining Google Ventures, Ken ...

Marketing Partner

Laura leads marketing for Google Ventures and works with portfolio companies on marketing strategies and ...

Technical Recruiter

Lem graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University. Combining that background ...

Communications Manager

Mandy is a communications manager for Google Ventures. She advises portfolio companies on their public ...

Recruiting Partner

Maximos is a recruiting partner at Google Ventures who specializes in sourcing. He has six years of ...

Michael Margolis

UX Research Partner

Since 1990, Michael has helped companies design products based on new insights about their customers. After ...

Engineering Partner

Reuben Joined Google Ventures in 2011 as an engineering partner. His career began over 18 years ago at a ...

Partner, Startup Lab

Rick is a partner at Google Ventures where he helps lead Startup Lab. Rick was previously a product manager ...

Operations

Christina Nyberg

Administrative Assistant

Christina joined Google Ventures in September 2011. Prior to joining the team, she was office manager and ...

Corporate Counsel

Daphne M. Chang is corporate counsel at Google Ventures. Prior to joining the Google Ventures team in 2011, ...

Elizabeth Zeratsky

Associate Corporate Counsel

Elizabeth is associate corporate counsel at Google Ventures. Prior to joining the Google Ventures team, ...

Jennifer Kercher

General Counsel

Jennifer Kercher is general counsel of Google Ventures. Jennifer joined Google Ventures from Google’s M&A ...

Senior Paralegal

Jessica Wu is a senior paralegal at Google Ventures. Prior to joining the Google Ventures team in 2011, ...

Jonathan Faerber

Finance Partner

Jonathan is Google Ventures’ finance partner and has worked with the fund since its inception. He oversees ...

Accounting Manager

Kim Burr is an accounting manager at Google Ventures and works on the fund’s portfolio reporting and ...

Administrative Assistant

Kimmy Brock joined Google Ventures in June 2011. She has spent the last 10 years working in education and ...

Laura Boychenko

Administrative Assistant

Laura joined the Google Ventures team after working as executive assistant to the founder and CEO of ...

Lindsey Mauldin

Administrative Assistant

Lindsey joined Google Ventures in November 2012 and has been working as an executive assistant in the private ...

Accounting Manager

Robin is an accounting manager at Google Ventures and works on the fund’s portfolio reporting and accounting ...

Tracie Henson Rotter

Operations and Programs Specialist

Tracie focuses on operations and programs at Google Ventures. Prior to joining the Google Ventures team in ...

Global Entrepreneurship Outreach

Bridgette Sexton

Global Entrepreneurship Manager

Bridgette is a global entrepreneurship manager working to further Google’s efforts to empower entrepreneurs ...

Global Entrepreneurship Manager

John is a global entrepreneurship manager, working on developing and managing Google's partnerships with ...

Director of Global Entrepreneurship Outreach

Mary Grove is director of Global Entrepreneurship Outreach where she leads Google for Entrepreneurs, the ...

Project Coordinator

Nicole joined Google Ventures in 2011. Prior to Google, Nicole worked in Connecticut as a project coordinator ...

Advisors to Google Ventures

Bernardo Hernandez

Advisor to Google Ventures

Bernardo Hernandez is a director of product management at Google, serving as managing director at Zagat. He ...

Advisor to Google Ventures

Chris DiBona is the director of open source for Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the ...

David Konerding

Advisor to Google Ventures

David Konerding is a software engineer at Google Inc. working on distributed computing infrastructure. ...

Advisor to Google Ventures

Don Dodge is a developer advocate at Google, helping developers build new applications on Google platforms ...

Advisor to Google Ventures

Georges Harik, one of Google’s first 10 employees, held the roles of director of Googlettes and distinguished ...

Advisor to Google Ventures

Hal R. Varian is the chief economist at Google. Since 2002 he has been involved in many aspects of the ...

John “Four” Flynn

Advisor to Google Ventures

John “Four” Flynn is an expert in information security with over 10 years of experience in the field. At ...

Michael T. Jones

Advisor to Google Ventures

Michael Jones is Google’s chief technology advocate, charged with advancing the technology to organize the ...

Advisor to Google Ventures

Peter Norvig is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for ...

Advisor to Google Ventures

Rick has worked at Google since 2008 and is currently director of the energy & sustainability team. His team ...

Ross Koningstein

Advisor to Google Ventures

As a kid, Ross liked building electronic devices and model planes.Ross received an undergraduate degree in ...

Advisor to Google Ventures

Sam Schillace is one of the founders of Writely, which he sold to Google in 2006 to become one of the first ...

Advisor to Google Ventures

Shernaz is a leading marketing, business, and communications consultant. She has over 20 years of experience ...

Advisor to Google Ventures

Tony is the director of a quantitative research team at Google. In addition to working with Google Ventures, ...