Square Names Anna Patterson, Founder and Managing Partner of Google’s Gradient Ventures, to Board of Directors
02 Novembre 2017 - 9:35PM
Business Wire
Today Square announced that Anna Patterson, Founder and Managing
Partner of Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund, and
a Vice President of Engineering at Google, has joined its Board of
Directors.
“Square has long recognized the potential for artificial
intelligence to help expand access to the economy and level the
playing field for business owners,” said Patterson. “I was drawn to
Square’s passion for making tools that foster inclusion, and I’m
looking forward to contributing to this work.”
“As an accomplished leader in the field of AI and a serial
entrepreneur, Anna is a perfect fit for Square,” said Jack Dorsey,
CEO of Square. “She’ll be a tremendous resource for us as we
leverage machine learning and deep learning for the good of our
sellers, and we are thrilled to welcome her to the Board.”
Patterson is the Founder and Managing Partner at Gradient
Ventures and oversees the fund’s investments and activities.
Patterson is a Vice President of Engineering at Google and most
recently helped to integrate AI into products across Google.
Previously, she led teams in Android scaling up the Google Play
infrastructure to serve over a billion phones. She helped launch
Google Play, the world’s largest digital goods marketplace, and
eventually led the product’s search, infrastructure, and
recommendations horizontals, as well as the Books vertical.
Patterson was the principal architect and inventor of TeraGoogle,
Google’s search serving system, which increased the index size over
10X at the time of launch. She also helped lead search ranking
efforts through Google’s IPO to determine the top ten search
results.
Patterson co-founded Cuil, a clustering-based search engine, and
wrote Recall.archive.org, the first keyword-based search engine and
the largest index of the Internet Archive. She wrote “Why writing
your own search engine is hard” in the ACM Queue detailing this
experience. Prior to that, Patterson co-authored a search engine at
Xift, where she was a co-founder.
Patterson received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then became a Research
Scientist at Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence, where
she worked with one of the founders of AI, John McCarthy, and his
wife, Carolyn Talcott.
Square’s Board of Directors also includes Jack Dorsey, Roelof
Botha, Paul Deighton, Randy Garutti, Jim McKelvey, Mary Meeker,
Naveen Rao, Ruth Simmons, Larry Summers, and David Viniar.
About Square, Inc.
Square, Inc. (NYSE:SQ) creates tools that help sellers start,
run, and grow their businesses. Square enables sellers to accept
card payments and also provides reporting and analytics, next-day
settlement, and chargeback protection. Square’s point-of-sale
software and other business services help sellers manage inventory,
locations, and employees; access financing; engage customers; and
grow sales. Square Cash is an easy way for businesses and
individuals to send and receive money, and Caviar is a food
ordering service for popular restaurants. Square was founded in
2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in the
United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Ireland, and the UK.
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