Alan Noble

Engineering Site Director, Google Australia & New Zealand (Sydney)

Alan manages Google's R &D centre in Sydney, contributing to the development of Google products and services in Australia/NZ and around the world, including the popular Google Maps.

Prior to his appointment at Google in February 2007, Alan was Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer for Netpriva, a company he founded.  A serial entrepreneur, Alan founded his first company, Netmind, in California in 1996.  Netmind was acquired in 2000 by Puma Technology, later known as  Intellisync, and subsequently acquired by Nokia. He remained at Intellisync as VP of Engineering until 2002, then joining Foursticks as CTO, where he was instrumental in bringing Foursticks technology to market.  Foursticks technology was acquired by NetPriva in 2005.

Alan has developed and taught curriculum for the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus.  He has an MS Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University, and a BE, Electrical and Electronic University from Adelaide Univeristy

Alan has been granted seven U.S. patents and has several others pending.