Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Brian McAndrews served as the Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Pandora Media, Inc. from September 2013 to March 2016.

Previously, Brian served as a Venture Partner with Madrona Venture Group, LLC, a venture capital firm, from 2012 to September 2013 and as a Managing Director of Madrona from 2009 to 2011.

From 2007 to 2008, Brian served as Senior Vice President of Advertiser and Publisher Solutions at Microsoft Corporation, a provider of software, services and solutions.

From 1997 to 2007, Brian served as Chief Executive Officer of aQuantive, a leading digital marketing services and technology company which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007.

Brian currently serves as Member of the Board of Directors and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of The New York Times Company, a multimedia news and information company and as Member of the Board of Directors of GrubHub Inc., an online and mobile food-ordering company.

Brian previously served as as Member of the Board of Directors of Fisher Communications, Inc. from 2006 to 2013 and Clearwire Corporation from 2009 to 2013.

Brian earned his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and his A.B. degree in Economics from Harvard College.

Brian’s Pandora playlists reflect his love for Elton John, Billy Joel, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. On the contemporary side, his current favorites are Bruno Mars, Maroon 5 and Rihanna.