Rick Klau

A long-time startup entrepreneur, Rick moved to Google as a result of its acquisition of FeedBurner in 2007. After a year in business development at Google, he transitioned into product management, where he worked on Blogger, Google+, and YouTube. In 2011, he joined Google Ventures as a member of the operating team. In February, 2021, he was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom to serve as California's Chief Technology Innovation Officer, where he ran the Office of Enterprise Technology. I left that role in July, 2022, and is currently working on what’s next.