Wesley Chan (born July 18, 1978) is an early employee at Google Inc. and is currently an investment partner at Google Ventures, the financial investment fund of the global search company.[1] He has led investments in and sits on the Board of Directors of software/web startups, cleantech companies, and biotech firms.
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Chan holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science and electronic engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed his graduate research in the Personal Information Architecture group at the MIT Media Lab.[2]
He also founded and launched Google Analytics and Google Voice.[3] Chan led and managed the acquisitions of Urchin Software Corporation and GrandCentral Communications which became the foundation and inspiration for the Google Analytics and Google Voice services.
Among the projects he has led or founded while at Google include:
Chan was also a research lead at HP Labs[8] in Palo Alto, CA and was a software engineer at Microsoft and Fujitsu.
Chan is a recipient of a Google Founders' Award for his work on building the Google Toolbar and growing it into one of the most installed client products in the world.[9]
He was selected by Technology Review Magazine as one of their top "35 under 35" TR35 innovators in 2010 for his work on starting and building Google Voice and Google Analytics.[10]
Chan also holds seven US patents from his work on developing display advertising products and designing public WiFi access points for Google.[11]
Chan is an accomplished photographer and has been published in numerous times in books and in the press. He also is the Chief Photographer Emeritus for Google.[12]