Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Brian Pinkerton is the VP & General Manager for A9.COM Inc.

He joined A9.com in 2003 as Principal Engineer.

After leaving to start his own company, Brian returned to A9 in 2011 as Chief Architect.

Since 2012, Brian has served as General Manager for A9.

Brian brings over 20 years of Search experience to A9. In 1993, Brian created WebCrawler, the first Internet search engine, while working on his Ph.D. at the University of Washington.

He subsequently held Senior Management roles at,

Excite,

Technorati,

Lucid Imagination .

Brian holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington.

B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin.