Bradley Horowitz is an entrepreneur, corporate executive, investor and advisor to numerous startups. He is a Founding Partner of Wisdom Ventures, a seed fund investing in startups that promote human connection and wellbeing. Bradley also serves as Fellow at the Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology at Stanford University.

Horowitz was a Vice President of Product Management at Google, where he led the development of many of Google’s consumer products including Google Photos, Google News, Gmail, Google Drive and Docs, Google Voice, and Calendar. He also led Google for Startups (an effort to foster opportunity for entrepreneurs worldwide) and co-founded Area 120 (Google’s internal incubator).

Before joining Google, Horowitz was Yahoo’s Vice President of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator, and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company’s initiative to open up its platform which included launching Hack Days and overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).

Horowitz was a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Lab, where he worked on topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing. He has published numerous refereed papers in academic journals, including work on recovery of non-rigid structure from motion and fractal image compression. Horowitz holds more than a dozen patents in these fields.

Horowitz was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO. He has served on the boards of Singapore Telecom, the MIT Media Lab, Curious Learning, Issuu, NextSense, Lyst, and the Effortless Mastery Institute.

Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and has taught at Cornell Tech as a Cornell Fellow. He and his wife Irene Au are avid angel investors, advisors to more than 150 startups, and supporters of the tech community.