Rich Miner

I have been building and investing in innovative startups for over 30 years. I joined Google with the acquisition of my startup company Android, which we built into the worlds most popular operating system. At Google I helped lead android development, helped create and grow our venture fund (GV) & I am currently building innovative products. Before Google I helped build the worlds first voice based personal assistant as co-founder of Wildfire Communications. We sold Wildfire to Orange where I was a VP of innovation and also started Orange Venture's - a corporate fund focused on communications and life style related investments. I have a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Mass at Lowell. Specialties: building, leading and motivating teams, delivering innovative products, raising money, architecture, telecommunications, speech recognition, user interfaces, internal and external communications, selling and closing deals, leading companies to successful exists