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Craig Walker is the CEO of Switch Communications, Inc., the company behind Switch.co, UberConference and Waitlist.me, and was the first entrepreneur in residence at Google Ventures. Walker had been the Group Product Manager for Real-Time Communications at Google, where he oversaw all of Google’s voice communications products, including Google Voice, Google Talk, and Google Talk Video. He is also a technology entrepreneur and investor. ==Career== Walker has been involved in early stage technology companies for many years, in a variety of capacities. He started working in the Silicon Valley as a corporate and securities attorney, representing technology companies, venture capitalists, and investment banks while an attorney at at Gunderson, Dettmer and at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison. He was also a venture capital investor at both Sterling Payot and TeleSoft Partners, focusing on Internet and telecommunications investments. In 1999, Walker became a founding investor in Dialpad Communications, one of the earliest companies to offer a VoIP soft client, and later joined as the company’s CEO in 2001. Yahoo! acquired Dialpad Communications in June 2005, and as part of the acquisition, Walker joined Yahoo! to become their Senior Director of VoIP. Walker left Yahoo! later in 2005 to start GrandCentral Communications with his business partner, Vincent Paquet. Walker served as the company’s CEO and Chairman until Google acquired it in July 2007. GrandCentral re-launched as Google Voice in 2009. Walker left Google in 2010 to join Google Ventures as their first Entrepreneur in Residence, where he started working on the ideas that would become Firespotter Labs. In 2012 Firespotter launched UberConference and then launched Switch in 2014 (the company simultaneously changed its name from Firespotter Labs to Switch Communications, Inc. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Craig Walker (businessman)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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