Thursday, August 13, 2009

Madrona Taps aQuantive's Brian McAndrews As Managing Director

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group reports this morning that it has added former aQuantive CEO Brian P. McAndrews as a Managing Director of the firm. Madrona said that McAndrews will identify and lead investments out of its recent $250M fund. McAndrews was CEO of aQuantive for eight years, until it was acquired by Microsoft in August of 2007. McAndrews then moved to Senior Vice President at Microsoft's Advertising and Publisher Solutions Group until January of this year. He is current on the boards of Clearwire, Fisher Communications, and WhitePages.com.