Bradley Horowitz

Bradley Horowitz
Bradley Horowitz with Irene Au
Born	Bradley Joseph Horowitz Dearborn, Michigan
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Occupation	VP Streams, Photos, and Sharing
Spouse(s)	Irene Au

Bradley Joseph Horowitz is an American entrepreneur and internet executive. He is VP Streams, Photos and Sharing at Google.

Horowitz was born in Dearborn, Michigan.

Horowitz received a B.A. in computer science from the University of Michigan in 1989.

He pursued his graduate studies at the MIT Media Lab, in the Vision and Modeling Group, under Professor Sandy Pentland. He received a Masters in Media Science in 1991, and subsequently entered the PhD program. He dropped out of the PhD program in 1993 to co-found Virage. Horowitz's academic work focused on the intersection of computer vision, image processing and computer graphics. He has published numerous refereed papers in academic journals, including work on recovery of non-rigid structure from motion and fractal image compression, and has been awarded more than a dozen patents.

Horowitz joined Yahoo in 2004 as Director of Media Search. Eventually he began the internal Hack Yahoo program, most notable for "Hack Days". Hack Days eventually morphed into the public facing Open Hack Days, including Beck's appearance at Yahoo's Sunnyvale campus in 2006. Eventually he was promoted to Vice President of Advanced Development, and his team created both Yahoo Research Berkeley and the Brickhouse incubator. Horowitz is also known for sponsoring numerous "Web 2.0" acquisitions into Yahoo including Flickr, MyBlogLog and Jumpcut.

Horowitz left Yahoo and joined Google in 2008 as vice president of product for consumer applications, eventually leading the product management organizations for Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar, Google Talk, Google Voice, Picasa, Orkut and Blogger. In 2011, Horowitz and Vic Gundotra conceived of and led the Google+ Project. In March 2015, he became the lead for the Google Photos and Streams products.

Bradley is an avid angel investor, and has invested in startups such as Dropcam, Slack Technologies, Honor and Change.org. He is an advisor to the behavioral analytics startup jobFig, and a board member of Issuu, a digital publishing platform.