Vic Gundotra
| Vic Gundotra | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 14, 1968 [1] India |
| Residence | California, United States |
| Occupation | Senior Vice President, Engineering |
| Children | 2 |
Vivek "Vic" Gundotra[2] (born June 14, 1968), is Senior Vice-President of Social Business for Google and was previously a general manager at Microsoft.
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[edit] Career
Gundotra joined Microsoft in 1991 and eventually became General Manager of Platform Evangelism. His duties included promoting Microsoft's APIs and platforms to independent developers and helping to develop a strategy for Windows Live online services to compete with Google's web-based software applications.[3]
Gundotra joined Google in June 2007, after taking a one-year delay working on charitable endeavors due to a Microsoft employee non-compete agreement. His responsibilities as Vice-President of Engineering include Google's mobile phone applications, and its developer efforts, including OpenSocial, Google Gadgets, Google Gears, and the more than 40 product APIs Google exposes. It was reported on Gigaom that he is considered to be Google's Social Czar. He is apparently known to be the man behind Google+[4], and is responsible for the controversial removal of social features from Google Reader[5].
[edit] Awards
In 2003, Gundotra was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35, for his contribution to Microsoft's .NET Framework.[6]
[edit] In Advertisement
Gundotra starred in a 2011 advertisement for the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, due in part to a near-crash when Gundotra took his eyes off the road for a few seconds. The Mercedes-Benz technology, which scans the road in front of it for impending accidents, perceived the car in front of him had stopped, which he [Gundotra] was fast approaching. Gundotra's car then stopped itself. Gundotra wrote Mercedes a letter expressing his thanks for this technology in their cars. Mercedes jumped at the opportunity to have Gundotra star in an advertisement promoting the technology.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ Vic Gundotra Profile, CrunchBase
- ^ Raymond, Scott (2011-08-24). "Google+ real name clampdown ignores own grace period". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/google-real-name-clampdown-ignores-own-grace-period/18299. "And it should be noted that his real name is not Vic, it’s Vivek."
- ^ Boutin, Paul (2006-07-03). "Where's My Google PC?". Slate. http://slate.com/id/2144896.
- ^ Gannes, Liz (2010-08-04). "Google’s Social Czar Is Vic Gundotra". Gigaom. http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/googles-social-czar-is-vic-gundotra/.
- ^ Estes, Adam (2011-10-25). "The World Is Surprisingly Angry About the End of Google Reader". The_Atlantic. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/10/world-surprisingly-angry-about-end-google-reader/44109/.
- ^ "2003 Young Innovators Under 35: Vic Gundotra, 34". Technology Review. 2003. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=291. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
- ^ "Google exec praises "magical software" working in his Mercedes-Benz". Autoblog.com. 2011. http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/09/google-exec-praises-magical-software-working-in-his-mercedes-b/. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
[edit] External links
- Thomas, Owen (2006-06-29). "Microsoft exec jumps to Google". CNN Money. http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/29/technology/msft_brain_drain.biz2/.
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