ESC Leadership
A Marquette University alum with a double major in Supply Chain and Marketing, this leader created and sold his first company, capitalizing on the pickleball craze, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Who is Drake Kakar?
Hao was born and raised in this Silicon Valley city, home to a university whose mascot is a Tree.
What is Palo Alto?
In March 2018, Google demonstrated its commitment to New York City by purchasing this famous Manhattan market for $2.4 billion.
What is Chelsea Market?
A series of sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves
What is echo?
This leader was inspired by his daughters to write his first novel, The Mystics’ Treachery.
Who is Eric Michlowitz
Hao attended this University where, as part of a senior project in 1990, a group of students founded the smoothie chain originally known as Juice Club.
What is Cal Poly SLO?
Started in 2007 with 650 bikes, this Mountain View-based program, designed by Googlers, now totals over 1,000 bikes.
What is the gBike program?
A soup originating from Northern Vietnam in the early 20th century
What is pho?
Prior to joining Google, this individual spent over a decade at Microsoft, where he developed and refined supply chain planning for its cloud, improving data center hardware signal accuracy and optimizing inventory levels.
Who is Anand Chellappakone?
Prior to joining ESC, Hao was a TPM on this team, where he led early board builds for for the Google Tensor chip, and managed the release of its branded wireless charger and USB-C earbuds.
What is Google Pixel phones?
This annual Nevada festival was the subject of the very first Google Doodle, created in 1998.
What is Burning Man?
In Mexico, the name of this currency also means "weight," as in a weight of precious metal
What is peso?
This ESC Director, a recipient of both the 2023 IM100 Award and the 2024 HITEC100 Award, previously held a Senior Director of Engineering role at X Corp leading that company's first AI deployment.
Who is Angie Garza?
Hao's Bachelor's degree is focused in this multidisciplinary field, whose name was coined in 1970s Japan and is now a corporate trademark, combines mechanical and electrical engineering to create smart devices like the Roomba.
What is Mechatronics?
Google's first tweet was "I'm feeling lucky" written in this type of code.
What is binary code?
In geologic time, it's smaller than an eon or era, but the Eocene one still lasted about 20 million years
What is to epoch?