R.J. Pittman

Current

• GM, Search Properties at Google, Inc.

Past

• Co-founder and CEO at Groxis, Inc.
• Managing Partner at Venture Factory Partners, LLC
• Co-founder and CEO at Digital Courier Technologies

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Education

• Stanford University
• University of Michigan

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Industry

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R.J. Pittman’s Summary

R.J. is currently working for Google on a broad range of products, driving innovation for company's next generation consumer search properties. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of Groxis, the advanced search engine technology company that created the industry’s first graphical information interface, the GII, to hundreds of prominent content services including Google, Yahoo, and Amazon.

Mr. Pittman has spent the last two decades building Internet software companies to help accelerate the evolution of a commerce-enabled Web. He has applied this experience to the creation many pioneering Internet companies and projects in the field of web search, social networking, e-payments, and online trading. R.J. has raised $50M in venture capital for the companies he has founded or co-founded since 1992, completing two IPOs, and the sale of two other companies. Mr. Pittman has also led e-business transformations at large multi-billion dollar corporations including Mckesson (NYSE: MCK), and Interface Global (NASDAQ: IFSIA).

R.J. is best known as a highly technical company chief executive, product innovator, and business development maverick applying his balance of deep technical expertise and product vision with sound business principles that keep his ventures well grounded for success.

Specializations:

• New company/product development, launch, and leadership
• Senior level business development and strategy
• Raising capital, Board creation, executive team development
• Product development and senior technical leadership
• Expert in information architecture, usability, Human-Computer Interaction

R.J. Pittman’s Specialties:

executive management, business development, venture capital, information design, information retrieval, web search, software design, user experience design, usability, knowledge management, search engine technology, natural language processing (NLP), text analytics, human computer interaction (HCI), SaaS, open source

LAMP, Linux, RoR, AJAX, DHTML, Java, J2EE, J2ME, network architectures, grid computing, scalable net-based super computer architectures

R.J. Pittman’s Experience

• GM, Search Properties

  Google, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  2007 — Present (1 year)

  Group Product Manager for Google's core global search properties including News, Finance, Images, Labs, and many others. Oversee user experience and design for same.

R.J. Pittman’s Education

• Stanford University

  MS, Engineering-Economic Systems

  Concentration: Decision Analysis and Corporate Strategy Modeling
  Postgraduate studies: Human Computer Interaction w/ Prof. Terry Winograd

• University of Michigan

  BSCE, Computer Engineering

  Concentration: IP networking, microprocessor design

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