Braden Kowitz

Braden Kowitz is a designer, storyteller, and product development geek. He is a design partner at Google Ventures, founding its Design Studio and consulting startups on UX Design and Product Development. Before Google Ventures, he led design for products such as Gmail, Google Buzz, Google Apps for Business, Google Spreadsheets, OpenSocial, and Google Trends. He began his career creating virtual reality simulators at the Beckman Institute and interactive visualizations at Lucent Technologies, after studying Computer Science at the University of Illinois and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon.