February 23, 2006 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Google Inc. has announced the appointment of Dr. Larry Brilliant as Executive Director of Google.org. Google.org administers Google's philanthropic activities and Dr. Brilliant will work with the company's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to “define the mission and strategic goals of Google's philanthropy”.
"As Larry Page and I have said, we hope that the contributions of Google.org may someday exceed those of Google itself in terms of overall world impact by ambitiously applying innovation and significant resources to the largest of the world's problems," suggested Google co-founder Sergey Brin. "Today we are excited to announce that we have found a leader that embodies that goal in spirit and in accomplishments - Larry Brilliant."
Dr. Brilliant has a solid background for his new role; a physician and epidemiologist, he is the Founder of The Seva Foundation and has previously been a member of the Policy Advisory Council at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. He was also a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of Kleiner-Perkins' Pandemic and Bio-Defense Fund. He holds a MPH in Economic Development and Health Planning from the University of Michigan. He also has a MD from Wayne State University and received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Knox College.
"I'm deeply honored to have been selected to direct Google.org," said Dr. Brilliant. "I have great admiration for Google's technical contributions to society and believe that it can have an equally great impression through philanthropy."
