Dr. Rich Miner (Video Available)
Speaker: Rich Miner, PhD , Android Co-founder; Co-founder at GV
Dr. Mandl and Dr. Miner had a fireside chat.
Rich Miner has been helping to build innovative technologies and companies with global impact for almost 40 years. He is a co-founder of Android, the world's most popular operating system with over 3 billion active users. After selling Android to Google in 2005 and launching the first few releases Rich co-founded GV, Google’s first venture fund. GV has led investments in a number of the past decades' most successful startups and Rich specifically backed some of Massachusetts top startups including Recorded Future, Toast, HubSpot and Tamr.
In the late 1980s, Rich helped incubate Avid Technology, creator of the first computer video editing platform, at U. Mass Lowell. Then in the early 1990s he co-founded Wildfire Communications, which developed the world’s first voice-based personal assistant, patenting many of the concepts now common in today's voice assistants. In April 2000, Wildfire was sold to Orange, where Rich served as vice president of innovation and led their R&D in North America. While at Orange, he also started their venture fund Orange Ventures which invested in Boston area startups like Netezza.
Rich received his Ph.D., Master and B.S. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Based in the Boston area, he continues to do advanced product development at Google as well as advise GV. He is also building and investing in innovative startups with his angel fund, ExVC.
