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Brian McClendon

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Brian leads the engineering group for Google’s geo products, which include Google Maps, Earth, Local Search, SketchUp, Street View, Ocean, Mars and Moon. Brian joined Google in 2004 via the acquisition of Keyhole Corporation where he was head of engineering, a founder, and a member of the board.

Prior to Keyhole, Brian was a founder at Intrinsic Graphics and an Engineering Director at @Home Network. Previously, he spent eight years at Silicon Graphics developing high-end workstation 3D graphics subsystems like GT, GTX, RealityEngine and InfiniteReality. He holds two issued patents including the one for KML, which is now an open standard for GIS data.

Brian has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas.

Recent Milestones

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  Brian McClendon invested in Leap Motion. (6/10/11)
  Posted 6/8/11 at 12:57am via techcrunch.com
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  Brian McClendon invested in Lightbox. (2/1/11)
  Posted 3/17/11 at 10:06am via techcrunch.com
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  Brian McClendon invested in AppMakr. (10/25/10)
  Posted 10/27/10 at 3:44am via techcrunch.com
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  Brian McClendon invested in SnapLogic. (10/29/09)
  Posted 10/29/09 at 11:55pm via venturebeat.com
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  Brian McClendon added a position as Vice President, Engineering at Google. (1/1/04)
  Posted 4/7/10 at 1:13pm
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  Brian McClendon added to Silicon Graphics. (1/1/88)
  Posted 4/7/10 at 1:13pm
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  Brian McClendon added a position as founder at Keyhole.
  Posted 4/7/10 at 1:13pm

Investments

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Sources

1. OcuSpec Raises 1.3M From Andreessen And Others To Build An "Affordable Kinect" (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Lightbox wants to be Android’s new camera app, raises $1.1 million from Valley players (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. AppMakr Raises $1 Million To Help You Build Custom iPhone Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Data integration company SnapLogic raises another $2.3M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]